One of the canards we keep hearing from gun-control advocates is that the CDC is somehow banned from doing research on gun violence, and that this is a contributing factor to the problem. President Obama used it, Secretary Clinton used it, and the media has latched on to it since Newtown.
The problem is, it’s an absolute lie. The CDC can do all the studies they want. However, if they want to do advocacy, they don’t get federal funding to do so.
Their crusade against guns (particularly handguns) started in the 1970’s, but things reached a head in 1993 with the publication of Arthur Kellerman’s “Gun ownership as a risk factor for homicide in the home” study, which despite being easily and soundly debunked, was published and repeated like crazy among the media and gun-control advocates. Any time you hear “you’re X times more likely to get shot if you own a gun,” it’s a reference to this study. Continued...