The CDC’s Walensky Won’t Acknowledge America Has a Crime Problem, Not a Public Health Problem

Cody Wisniewski, Director of Mountain States Legal Foundation’s Center to Keep and Bear Arms, writes at The Truth About Guns:

Last week, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dr. Rochelle Walensky, announced the CDC’s new public-health focus—addressing the Biden Administration’s newly labeled “gun violence public health epidemic.”

Given the CDC’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and its unconstitutional eviction moratorium (that the Supreme Court recently struck down) Americans have good reason to be skeptical. Anticipating such skepticism, Dr. Walensky told CNN in an exclusive interview: “My job is to understand and evaluate the problem.”

But that isn’t her job at all.

“I’m not here about gun control,” she assured. “I’m here about preventing gun violence and gun death.”

But those terms are, in and of themselves, part of the gun control agenda. 

Read the full article at The Truth About Guns.

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