TRUMP ADMINISTRATION CUTS CDC ‘GUN VIOLENCE’ STAFF

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION CUTS CDC ‘GUN VIOLENCE’ STAFF

The Second Amendment Foundation shares an update from The White House on cutting CDC staff, who have absolutely nothing to do regarding our Second Amendment! After all, what business does the  Center for Disease Control have to do with our Constitutional right to bear arms???

One should ask the question “why” is the Centers for Disease Control involved IN ANY WAY with our Second Amendment rights? Surely it’s by “design” and globalist agenda against the American people to utterly destroy America! Secondly, we should address the issue of this made up term  “gun violence”. A firearm is an inanimate object and therefore, incapable of any action on it’s own! Most reasonable thinkers understand this is nothing more than manipulation of repeating such a term to make it effective and enhance their cause.

However, if we applied the same principal to car violence, we’d have every automobile manufacturer throwing darts at those who say any car accident, is “car violence” and must stop! I say it’s past time to stand up against this RHETORIC and shout our a  BIG THANK YOU to SAF!

 

Here’s their post and update:

“BELLEVUE, Wash. — April 7, 2025 — While the gun prohibition lobby is lamenting reported reductions in staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Second Amendment Foundation is applauding the Trump administration cuts, which will hopefully take the CDC out of the gun control arena, at least for the foreseeable future.

“With these reductions,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb, “the government is no longer treating gun ownership as a communicable disease.”

The staff reductions, announced by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have caused tremors within the gun control community. Critics are complaining the cuts will undermine the federal government’s ability to combat so-called “gun violence” research.

“Ever since the CDC inserted itself into the gun rights debate,” Gottlieb observed, “the agency has spent millions of dollars to promote the notion that gun-related violence is a public health issue, and they’ve mostly gotten away with it, thanks largely to their allies in the media treating everything they say as gospel. But it’s not a ‘health crisis,’ it’s a crime problem, and the antidote is not restricting the rights of law-abiding gun owners, which CDC research invariably seems to suggest, but instead restricting the freedom of violent repeat offenders.

“One complaint we’ve heard is that these cuts have ‘decimated’ staff responsible for so-called ‘gun violence research and prevention,’ but so far all of this research does not appear to have prevented a single violent crime,” he stated. “Instead, we see declarations that more research is needed, while anti-gunners use CDC data to erode Second Amendment rights. That sounds like a perpetual ‘make work’ effort to keep the public funding flowing while gun owners are essentially treated like plague carriers, or lepers.”

 

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Gun Control – How to talk with non 2A supporters

Gun Control – How to talk with non 2A supporters

How to talk to those who support gun control. Hold your ground and have a conversation — not a fight or argument.

“According to almost every major study on the issue, Americans use their firearms defensively between 500,000 and 3 million times each year.” From @HeritageDataViz Data Visualizations

I feel we are at a boiling point in America on so many levels. One side against the other pushing and believing with all their hearts in what they say (or believe in) is the “absolute truth”.

We all know no matter how thin the pancake is, there are always two sides.

So, the question remains how to talk rationally to those who are for gun control?

The DC Project has a great resource on this topic and a free download here.

One of the most important things to remember is getting off on the right foot.

Begin the conversation with finding common ground. “How”? you may ask.

We all want to feel safe in our own homes and communities and to protect our family.

Share your values why feeling safe matters to you –

  • I carry to protect myself / yourself and Life.
  • A firearm equalizes the malice of evil intent
  • I don’t want to be helpless – I don’t want to be a victim
  • Chances are no one will be there to help (or save me) so I will need to be the first responder to a crime scene or what may have been a potential crime scene but was warded off because I was prepared individual

Here are some ways to brainstorm

  • Sharing your truth is an opportunity to inform, enlighten, inspire and support our Constitutional rights.
  • . Write down a list of everything you would want someone to know about why you support 2A rights.
  • Then, write a benefit for the person you are (or my in contact with)
  • Give yourself several responses
  • Speak calmly and address the value for them (i.e. What’s in it for me)

Speak calmly and from your heart.

Share your story and let your emotions out – don’t force them but don’t be embarrassed if the reason you chose a firearm brought tears to your eyes.

Come from a place of education rather than throwing the Constitution at them. Education is such an eye opener.

Relate the fear, nervousness of learning to drive a car (also a deadly weapon – in the wrong hands) to firearms. Once you learn proper gun safety and handling rules, (learning “how” to drive and practicing driving) your fear and nerves subside.

After all, it’s the PERSON  using the instrument (car, truck, knife, or firearm) not the object.

There are already many laws “on the books” and that doesn’t stop malicious intent. Evil cannot be stopped – other than by a higher power, i.e. God.

Asking questions and LISTEN.

Do you believe you have a right to survive and to protect your family?

Your wife, child(ren), mom, dad, siblings, neighbor, etc.?

If so, the Second Amendment guarantees your freedom to choose how to protect them.

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