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I've
said that my biggest concern about Obamacare isn't the cost, since our
money will be essentially worthless in a few months anyway. No, it's
because gummint controlled health care affords them
an opportunity to control every aspect of our lives under its
umbrella. I remember being stunned when, during a congressional hearing on her health grab attempt, some Donk asked Hillary whether a tax on bullets was being considered? "No," she
replied, "but that might be a good idea." Senator Daniel
Patrick Moynihan jumped all over the idea. Today's IBD editorial addresses that concern with this new bunch.
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Gun Rights:
A decade after Congress forbade the CDC from studying the health
consequences of gun ownership, the National Institutes of Health has
started funding such research. Will reform pry the guns from our cold,
sick hands?
More than a decade ago Congress, seeing it as a backdoor assault on the
2nd Amendment and the right to keep and bear arms, voted to cut funding
for firearms research by the Centers for Disease Control. Such research
was viewed as one-sided and based on flawed assumptions that all gun
use was bad, even that which saved lives and deterred crime.
The National Institutes of Health seemed to have picked up the baton by
funding similar studies of gun violence as a public health issue.
"It's almost as if someone's been looking for a way to get this study
done ever since the Centers for Disease Control was banned from doing
it 10 years ago," said Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, of one of the NIH
studies. "But it doesn't make any more sense now than it did then."
In response to inquiries about the studies, NIH spokesman Don Ralbovsky
said: "Gun-related violence is a public health problem — it diverts
considerable health care resources away from other problems and,
therefore, is of interest to NIH."
Considering the drive for health care reform and the views on private
gun ownership held by this administration and appointees such as
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, [continued]
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Today's special quote: "... the government has nuclear weapons and F-16s. If by
some convoluted Manchurian takeover, the feds wanted a dictatorship, would your
hunting rifles stop them?" Cynthia Tucker
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