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CDC Director To Restart Gun Research Amid Spate Of Mass Shootings
For the first time in decades, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) will restart research into the gun violence epidemic across the U.S. CDC researchers will be on a mission to collect enough data to enable the agency to create solutions to prevent gun-related deaths, accidental gun deaths, and/or suicides.
CDC director Rochelle Walensky spoke with CNN over the weekend and revealed her new plan to research guns and gun-related violence.
“Every day, we turn on the news, and there are more young people dying,” Walensky said. “I swore to the president and to this country that I would protect your health. This is clearly one of those moments, one of those issues, that’s harming America’s health.”
The CDC has remained silent for decades about guns, tackling other epidemics as tens of thousands of people die from firearm-related injuries every year.
Breaking down GVA’s numbers, the U.S. is averaging nearly two mass shootings per day.
Walensky said, “something has to be done about this,” adding that Americans are sick and tired of turning on the nightly news and hearing about mass shooting stories.
My job is to understand and evaluate the problem. To understand the scope of the problem. To understand why this happens and what are the things that can make it better,” she said
Walensky hopes that gun owners don’t associate the CDC’s upcoming research with “gun control.”
She continued: “I’m not here about gun control. I’m here about preventing gun violence and gun death.”
This brings us to her boss, President Biden, whose administration members are on a mission to limit or ban guns.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cdc-director-restart-gun-research-amid-spate-mass-shootings