{"id":84103,"date":"2022-12-20T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84103"},"modified":"2022-12-20T13:32:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T19:32:03","slug":"twitter-not-the-only-fed-sock-puppet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84103","title":{"rendered":"Twitter:  Not The Only Fed Sock Puppet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>Anti-gun groups peddled influence in the Centers for Disease Control to gundeck research that showed defensive gun uses by civilians are common.  It&#8217;s just bad for business, if you&#8217;re a gun grabber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The decision to remove a CDC-commissioned report from the agency\u2019s website on gun statistics at the apparent behest of gun-control advocates may further strain its relationship with Congressional overseers, especially pro-gun Republicans who are set to take control of the House next year. The relationship between the two, already frayed over the Coronavirus pandemic, could reach new lows not seen in decades. During the 1990s, Congress put restrictions on CDC funding in response to officials openly working with gun-control groups to try and ban handguns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe need to revolutionize the way we look at guns, like what we did with cigarettes,\u201d Mark Rosenberg, director of the CDC\u2019s National Center for Injury Prevention,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/opinions\/1994\/10\/19\/sick-people-with-guns\/6c7f2bd2-fa57-4d69-b927-5ceb4fa43cf4\/\">told&nbsp;<em>The Washington Post<\/em>&nbsp;in 1994<\/a>. \u201cIt used to be that smoking was a glamour symbol\u2013cool, sexy, macho. Now it is dirty, deadly\u2013and banned.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kleck,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/criminology.fsu.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/gary-kleck\">Professor Emeritus at Florida State University\u2019s College of Criminology and Criminal Justice<\/a>, stood by his research. He said the CDC did not reach out to him for his perspective before making the change. He argued the removal of the reference to his estimate was \u201cblatant censorship\u201d and said it was evidence of the politicization of the agency.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Kleck &#8211; a Democrat &#8211; has been a Thomas Becket to the gun grabbers&#8217; Henry II for three decades now.  Seems the grabbers have decided to cut out the middleman.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First Covid, now putting a finger on the scale re guns.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m building a list of alphabet agencies some future GOP administration is going to need to gut, using the Marines if necessary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UPDATE:  Becket.  Not More. Blah <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-gun groups peddled influence in the Centers for Disease Control to gundeck research that showed defensive gun uses by civilians are common. It&#8217;s just bad for business, if you&#8217;re a gun grabber. The decision to remove a CDC-commissioned report from the agency\u2019s website on gun statistics at the apparent behest of gun-control advocates may further [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84108,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84103\/revisions\/84108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}