Arkansas Congressman Jay Dickey, who described himself as “the NRA’s point person in Congress,” introduced an amendment to strip the CDC of their entire budget for firearm injury research. In a series of hearings of the House Appropriations Committee, he cross-examined CDC scientists about their research on the relationship between firearms and violence. On the floor of the House, he asserted to his colleagues that gun violence was “obviously not a public health threat,” and suggested that the CDC’s research was merely an attempt “to raise emotional sympathy for those people who are for gun control.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.This is pretty old. True. but 15 years old
Dick_Martin
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I realize it's old, I posted it to show the mentality, and that hasn't changed
Can I have emotional sympathy for the fact that I really want to pistol whip him with one of his own guns!
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