CDC Misrepresents Their Crime Data to Promote Gun Control

06-07-2011 • Pajamas Media

A recent Centers for Disease Control report shows how biased data sampling supports anti-rights propaganda. In a new report, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) attempted to link firearms with violence, especially against children. The authors wrote: “Gun violence historically has been a problem in cities, and youths have been affected disproportionately.” The gun control formula equates guns with violence in the reader’s mind, thus the term “gun violence.” CDC history lesson The CDC has long supported gun control. Researcher David Kopel wrote about CDC’s history of funding anti-gun research: Finally, in 1996, Congress cut off gun control funding for the CDC — mainly because the NRA demonstrated to legislators the CDC was buying political misinformation rather than science. Since then, they’ve attempted to reframe their agenda into “gun safety.” In the early 2000s, the CDC performed national gun ownership surveys. The survey’s codebook had interviewers asking people