RE: Kokomo Tribune OpEd of Jan 3, 2020 “Serious treatment of
a serious issue”
The data for gun deaths is already there for anyone – even the
Trib – to study. Yet as drug overdoses
killed a record 72,000 Americans last year, the Trib argues for wasting more
money (25 million split between the CDC and NIH) on new “the fix is in” studies
on “gun violence”. Smart.
There were about 40,000 gun related deaths in 2017. The overwhelming majority – about 24,000 –
were due to suicide. About 10,000 were murders
committed with firearms of all kinds. Only
403 of the murders were committed with rifles of all type. But no doubt, the CDC/NIH will find that the
undefinable “assault rifle” must be banned. In any CDC/NIH study that conclusion will be written before the first piece of data is examined. A large percentage of the murders occurred among gang members in
Democrat controlled urban areas where strict gun control measures already
exist.
Conclusion: If you want to live longer, avoid gang activity, buy
a gun for self-defense and move away from Democrat controlled urban areas.
There, I just saved the federal government 25 million dollars.
Friday, January 03, 2020 1:00 am
Indiana voices
Serious
treatment of a serious issue
Starting in 1996, the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention self-imposed a ban on researching
firearms deaths in the United States. The agency had been cowed by the National
Rifle Association and the Republican-controlled House, among others, who
accused it of being a fellow traveler of those pushing for gun control.
Fast forward to
December 2012. The world was shocked by the Sandy Hook Elementary School
shooting in which 28 people, including 20 first-graders, were shot to death.
The following month, President Barack Obama issued a direct order to
then-Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius to lift this
prohibition and “conduct or sponsor research into the causes of gun violence
and the ways to prevent it.”
Since then, the CDC
has done little to nothing on this issue. Congress once again clamped down on
dedicated funding for this valuable research.
Cold, hard facts
should always be welcome in a debate as serious as this one. And for the
first time in 24 years, it looks like Americans and their lawmakers finally
will get some.
The House-approved
$1.4 trillion federal spending package includes $25 million for gun safety
research. That funding will be split between the CDC and National Institutes of
Health.
Without the needed
data in hand, we can't have an intelligent discussion on gun violence in
America. The CDC is uniquely qualified to do this research, yet it wasn't
allowed to do so for more than 20 years for purely political reasons.
“As the nation's
health protection agency, CDC saves lives and protects people from health
threats,” reads its mission statement. “To accomplish our mission, CDC conducts
critical science and provides health information that protects our nation
against expensive and dangerous health threats, and responds when these arise.”
With its action to
fund research on this uniquely American concern, Congress gave meaning to the
CDC's mission.
More importantly, it
said it would no longer be afraid of what researchers find on the subject of
gun violence.
– Kokomo
Tribune
Re: Dorotha Fry Mason’s letter “GOP integrity shown to be in
short supply” of Dec 30, 2019.
It’s always so much fun to read lefty letters in the JG where
the writer points out the speck in someone else’s eye while they ignore the
beam in their own. Take Dorotha Fry Mason’s letter “GOP integrity shown to be
in short supply” of Dec 30, 2019 where the dear lady holds colossal gasbag NY
Senator Chuck Schumer up as some kind of paragon of integrity.
In reality Schumer - AKA cryin’ Chuck – has been a double
talking, double dealing, integrity free, partisan BS artist since he won
election to the senate in 1998. Schumer can be relied upon to change his
position on everything from war to the border wall as frequently as a yoga instructor
depending on what the Democrat Party demands.
Schumer has demonstrated that he is little more than a slave to party
politics – the country be damned.
The fact that anyone would hold this rudderless buffoon propelled
by nothing other than the stream of party politics up as a Democrat with “courage”
is a clear indication of just how bankrupt of integrity the Democrats are.
Monday, December 30, 2019 1:00 am
Letters
GOP integrity shown to
be in short supply
I have Republican
friends who are smart and I appreciate them. When I listened to the impeachment
hearings, I have to wonder about some of the House Republicans.
They rant and rave.
They never talk about the accusations – only the process and over and over
again. They whine they don't have a chance to present witnesses but they have
ample chances and, as has been pointed out time and again, the president was
asked to present his side but he chose not to do so. The Republicans act like
little puppies tagging along with whatever Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump say
to do.
Does not anyone have
an idea of their own except Sen. Chuck Schumer, who has shown amazing
courage in standing up to McConnell? I do hope and pray many of the others
will look deep into their consciences and think of the values of our country.
We do not want nor need to follow in Germany's state of affairs in following
their dictator. We need a mature president who thinks, has integrity, who
respects all people and the values of America. May it be so.
Dorotha Fry Mason
North Manchester
JG letters to the editor from the tiresome “resistance” have to make
reasonable people scratch their heads. Take
Melinda Capozza’s letter “Examine all evidence, then decide on Trump” of Dec
30, 2019 where she states that “Obstruction of Congress appears to be rather
obvious.” Huh? Obvious?
Really?
The obstruction of congress article of impeachment stems from the
executive branch exercising its constitutional privilege to protect the executive
branch from congressional overreach.
Presidents of both parties have exercised the exact same privilege. When the privilege is deemed to be frivolous or
excessive, congress has in the past taken the executive branch to court – a la
Richard Nixon – to resolve the issue.
Entering into the courts for resolution of the matter this time around did
not fit the Democrat timetable for impeachment, so they simply and foolishly
added it as an article of impeachment.
If Capozza is “counting on the
witnesses to tell the truth” she shouldn’t hold her breath. It is unlikely that the crackhead Hunter
Biden who, were it not for his last name, is an unemployable grifter, his gaffe
a minute old man or the non-whistleblowing political hack liar who kicked the
whole Democrat inspired scam off in the first place will ever come forward to
tell the truth.
If obstruction of
congress is reed upon which impeachment hangs, the only possible “fair
and impartial outcome” in this hoax is a quick acquittal.
Dec 30,2019
Examine all evidence,
then decide on Trump
I am trying to
maintain an open mind about the impeachment charges – waiting to process
the evidence as to whether Donald Trump is guilty or innocent of the charges.
Obstruction of Congress appears to be rather obvious. Not so obvious is abuse
of power. I'm counting on the witnesses to tell the truth, and on our
representatives and senators to defend the Constitution regardless of
partisan politics.
One can only hope for
a fair and impartial outcome.
Melinda Capozza
Huntington
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