Jay MaynardMar 14
the entire field of gun studies is moribund — it never recovered from its kneecapping by Congress in 1996, when legislators threatened to defund the Center for Disease Control unless it stopped all research into gun violence.
Why the Tech Industry Shuns America’s Gun Problem
Scott Rosenberg
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There’s a reason Congress stepped in. The CDC’s “research” was heavily biased and overtly slanted toward anti-gun advocacy, using such dishonest tricks as including drug dealers and buyers ad “acquaintances” and defining “child” as anyone under 25.
If there is to be research, it must not be government-funded — after all, if money corrupts research, then government money counts too, and governments hate guns in civilian hands — and it must be rigorously designed and carried out to expunge any possibility of ideology.
