BELLEVUE, Wash. — April 7, 2025 — Whereas the gun prohibition foyer is lamenting reported reductions in workers on the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, the Second Modification Basis is applauding the Trump administration cuts, which can hopefully take the CDC out of the gun management area, at the very least for the foreseeable future.
“With these reductions,” stated SAF founder and Government Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb, “the federal government is now not treating gun possession as a communicable illness.”
The workers reductions, introduced by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have triggered tremors inside the gun management group. Critics are complaining the cuts will undermine the federal authorities’s skill to fight so-called “gun violence” analysis.
“Ever for the reason that CDC inserted itself into the gun rights debate,” Gottlieb noticed, “the company has spent hundreds of thousands of {dollars} to advertise the notion that gun-related violence is a public well being problem, and so they’ve principally gotten away with it, thanks largely to their allies within the media treating all the pieces they are saying as gospel. Nevertheless it’s not a ‘well being disaster,’ it’s a criminal offense drawback, and the antidote shouldn’t be limiting the rights of law-abiding gun homeowners, which CDC analysis invariably appears to recommend, however as a substitute limiting the liberty of violent repeat offenders.
“One criticism we’ve heard is that these cuts have ‘decimated’ workers liable for so-called ‘gun violence analysis and prevention,’ however to date all of this analysis doesn’t seem to have prevented a single violent crime,” he acknowledged. “As an alternative, we see declarations that extra analysis is required, whereas anti-gunners use CDC knowledge to erode Second Modification rights. That seems like a perpetual ‘make work’ effort to maintain the general public funding flowing whereas gun homeowners are basically handled like plague carriers, or lepers.”
