CDC Report on Gun Control
Confirms Laws Don't Work Says Citizens Committee
BELLEVUE, WA-A report released by the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC) showing that there is no conclusive evidence
that gun control laws contribute to decreases in violent crime
or suicide "proves what we have been saying for years,"
the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA)
said today.
"For years," said CCRKBA Executive Director Joe Waldron,
"anti-gun groups, often citing the CDC's earlier biased
research, had claimed more gun laws will reduce violent crime
and suicide. CDC stopped conducting advocacy research in 1996
by order of Congress. Now, according to more balanced research,
the CDC is basically acknowledging that its earlier efforts,
and those of extremist gun grabbers, have been all wet."
Yet the CDC, evidently unhappy with the available research,
wants to study the issue more, arguing that there is "insufficient
evidence to determine the effectiveness of any of the firearms
laws reviewed for preventing violence." Waldron rejected
that as more partisan politics.
"Because the CDC could not reach yet another anti-gun conclusion,"
he said, "they want to study |
some more, at least until they come up
with a report that squared with their long-standing anti-gun
agenda. That doesn't wash. For the first time, CDC has had to
acknowledge that gun control doesn't work."
The report brought an incredulous comment from Peter Hamm with
the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence: "It's hard to
study whether gun control laws work in this country because we
have so few of them."
CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb offered this blistering response:
"Hamm is half-baked. Gun ownership in this country is heavily
regulated by a Pandora's Box of federal, state and local gun
laws, many which often conflict with one another to the point
that private citizens cannot know whether they are obeying a
law while breaking another. The CDC report seems to confirm what
we've been saying all along. Gun control laws have no impact
on criminals, only law-abiding citizens who don't commit crimes.
To suggest we need more laws when the ones already passed as
successive panaceas apparently haven't worked is ludicrous.
"The CDC's suggestion for additional studies, simply because
they don't like the results of their own research, is like treating
a patient with drugs that you know aren't working, so you give
him more of the same drugs," Gottlieb observed.
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is one
of the nation's premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit
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tion, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving
firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials
and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists
in local communities throughout the United States.
High School Students Turn the Tables on PETA
Anti-Meat Campaign
Hundreds of hungry, barbecue lovers killed two birds with one
stone by supporting a fundraiser for local high school drill
teams and mocking a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
(PETA) anti-meat promotion.
High school drill teams near Pocatello, Idaho hosted a barbecue
across the street from a PETA billboard that showed an overweight
child eating a hamburger and the words "feeding kids meat
is child abuse." When the grilling was over, more
than 1,000 burgers and nearly 500 hot dogs had been eaten and
over $1,200 had been raised.
At the event, hundreds of people were given cow stickers that
read "I Love Meat." Dozens of drill team members
paraded with signs that read "People Eating Tasty Animals"
and "Honk if you eat meat, cry if you don't."
Several local meat markets and the Cattle Association donated
meat, Wonderbread provided buns and the Coca-Cola Corp. helped
provide drinks.
This information is from the U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance and www.ussportsmen.org
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