Last week, Senator Ed Markey and Rep. Carolyn Maloney introduced legislation that would give the Center for Disease Control $60M to dispense to gun control activists for “research.” Both legislators have an NRA rating of “F.”

The anti-gun legislators claim that Congress “‘almost halted entirely’ all funding of gun control research, the operative word being ‘almost.’ In 1996, Congress did stop the CDC from funneling millions of the taxpayers’ dollars to anti-gunners to conduct ‘research’–pitiful by academic standards–designed from the get-go to promote a political agenda against a constitutionally-protected right. ”

However, money still flowed to the anti-gun groups from left-wing foundations. The NRA writes, “the Joyce Foundation alone has given several million dollars to a variety of anti-gun groups and individuals every year since 1996.”

The other reason the legislators claim the federals funds are needed is, of course, to stop the “gun violence . . . epidemic.”  But according to the NRA, there is no gun violence epidemic.

Only three-one-thousandths of one percent of the U.S. population are the victims of firearm-related murders annually. Victimization rates vary widely according to a person’s sex, age, race, economic status, area of residence, and criminal record. And, over the last 20 years–coinciding with a huge increase in the numbers of Right-to-Carry states, gun owners and guns owned–the firearm murder rate has been cut in half, even though virtually none of the gun control restrictions advocated by anti-gun researchers has been implemented.

Considering the Republicans control both the House and the Senate, this bill doesn’t have much of a chance for success.

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