Public health pot shots: how the CDC succumbed to the gun "epidemic." (US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)(Cover Story)

From: Reason | Date: April 1, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

Some legislators want the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) abolished. They claim that the NCIPC's firearm injuries research is part of a campaign against legal gun ownership. In 1996, Congress trimmed $2.6 million from the CDC budget.

Last year Congress tried to take away $2.6 million from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In budgetary terms, it was a pittance: 0.1 percent of the CDC's $2.2 billion allocation. Symbolically, however, it was important: $2.6 million was the amount the CDC's ...

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