Bruce in West Oz
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Prob'ly old news to you, but we just heard about it on a SSAA Alert this morning:
Note the comments from vehemently anti-gun, anti-men, lesbian Australian Rebecca Peters, a driving force behind the push for total civilian disarmament ...
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Top Gun Injury Researcher at CDC Fired
Constitution News Keywords: 2ND AMENDMENT
Source: jointogether.org
Published: 11-15-99
Posted on 11/16/1999 08:07:12 PST by Trailer Trash
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) quietly fired Mark L.Rosenberg, its top gun violence researcher, on Sept. 1, the Probe newsletter reported Nov. 1.
Rosenberg, who was fired by CDC Director Jeffrey P. Koplan, M.D., initiated CDC's research into gun violence in the early 1980s, looking particularly at the causes and prevention of gun violence.
"Mark has been a giant on the world scene in saying that the peril of gun injury is a public health issue that can be approached like any other such issue, by doing research, designing interventions, and then modifying them if necessary," said Rebecca Peters of Australia, an attorney and a gun control advocate who is a visiting fellow in justice studies at the Soros Foundation in New York.
She added, "There is a widespread perception among the public health community that the reason Rosenberg was so unceremoniously dumped is because he's been identified by the gun lobby as their enemy. I don't think this ouster is a coincidence, given the upcoming presidential election."
The CDC's gun violence work has been strongly opposed by Republicans in the U.S. Senate. In 1995, the U.S. Congress cut the CDC's budget by $2.6 million, the exact amount the center requested for research on gun-related
injuries. Among the senators who attacked the gun study program were Bob Dole (R-Kan.), Trent Lott (R-Miss.), Christopher Bond (R-Mo.), Ted Stevens (R-Ala.), and
Lauch Faircloth (R-N.C).
The program also was opposed by the National Rifle Association (NRA). According to Peters and other experts (emphasis added), the firing of Rosenberg means the NRA/GOP agenda to stop or curtail research on gun-related injuries has been achieved.
According to CDC spokeswoman Mary Ann Fenley, the remaining budget for limited research and analysis into gun violence provided by the U.S. Congress is $1 million annually. The cuts come at a time when gun violence at
schools, in the workplace and in communities has increased.
Rosenberg is now working in a non-federal job at a collaborative center for childhood well-being that is run by Emory University and the Carter Center near Atlanta, Ga. He also retains his U.S. Public Health Service title of assistant surgeon general.
Fenley said the center's new chief and acting director is family practitioner Stephen B. Thacker, M.D. It appears Thacker has little experience in gun violence studies.[/quote]
How sad
Watch Rebecca Peters, people. She is bad news and seems somehow to always attract the support of those in high places for her anti-gun agenda.
B
Note the comments from vehemently anti-gun, anti-men, lesbian Australian Rebecca Peters, a driving force behind the push for total civilian disarmament ...
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Top Gun Injury Researcher at CDC Fired
Constitution News Keywords: 2ND AMENDMENT
Source: jointogether.org
Published: 11-15-99
Posted on 11/16/1999 08:07:12 PST by Trailer Trash
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) quietly fired Mark L.Rosenberg, its top gun violence researcher, on Sept. 1, the Probe newsletter reported Nov. 1.
Rosenberg, who was fired by CDC Director Jeffrey P. Koplan, M.D., initiated CDC's research into gun violence in the early 1980s, looking particularly at the causes and prevention of gun violence.
"Mark has been a giant on the world scene in saying that the peril of gun injury is a public health issue that can be approached like any other such issue, by doing research, designing interventions, and then modifying them if necessary," said Rebecca Peters of Australia, an attorney and a gun control advocate who is a visiting fellow in justice studies at the Soros Foundation in New York.
She added, "There is a widespread perception among the public health community that the reason Rosenberg was so unceremoniously dumped is because he's been identified by the gun lobby as their enemy. I don't think this ouster is a coincidence, given the upcoming presidential election."
The CDC's gun violence work has been strongly opposed by Republicans in the U.S. Senate. In 1995, the U.S. Congress cut the CDC's budget by $2.6 million, the exact amount the center requested for research on gun-related
injuries. Among the senators who attacked the gun study program were Bob Dole (R-Kan.), Trent Lott (R-Miss.), Christopher Bond (R-Mo.), Ted Stevens (R-Ala.), and
Lauch Faircloth (R-N.C).
The program also was opposed by the National Rifle Association (NRA). According to Peters and other experts (emphasis added), the firing of Rosenberg means the NRA/GOP agenda to stop or curtail research on gun-related injuries has been achieved.
According to CDC spokeswoman Mary Ann Fenley, the remaining budget for limited research and analysis into gun violence provided by the U.S. Congress is $1 million annually. The cuts come at a time when gun violence at
schools, in the workplace and in communities has increased.
Rosenberg is now working in a non-federal job at a collaborative center for childhood well-being that is run by Emory University and the Carter Center near Atlanta, Ga. He also retains his U.S. Public Health Service title of assistant surgeon general.
Fenley said the center's new chief and acting director is family practitioner Stephen B. Thacker, M.D. It appears Thacker has little experience in gun violence studies.[/quote]
How sad
Watch Rebecca Peters, people. She is bad news and seems somehow to always attract the support of those in high places for her anti-gun agenda.
B