Should the CDC be permitted to study gun violence?

[Cashew]

Centers for DISEASE Control should stick to studying diseases. NIOSH is largely a waste of money that could be better spent on real science. Malaria research > useless reports on how kids who accidentally shoot themselves are more likely to die from gun violence than kids who do not.

America is suffering an epidemic of gun violence. On average, a Mandalay Bay's worth of people kill themselves with a gun every day. Another 25 are killed by someone else with a gun.

Epidemic. Noun. A widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.

Gun violence is not a disease. CDC should stick to infectious diseases.

Oxford English Dictionary:

1.1. A sudden, widespread occurrence of an undesirable phenomenon.
‘an epidemic of violent crime’

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/epidemic

Historonics do not change the fact that gun violence has been dropping since the 90's so no, there is no epidemic.

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No, and they shouldn't be able to study smoking, vaping, drinking during the day, drinking as a teenager, dropping out of school, biking without a helmet, playing on a playground, being unsupervised as a child, or having sex as a teenager either.

What is this garbage? None of these activities are remotely equivalent to gun violence

My point is that they shouldn't be able to study anything for which it would serve a moral or political agenda to produce certain results.

So then they shouldn't be able to study anything then.

There's plenty of things for them to study where there wouldn't be such an agenda. For example, chicken pox.

Vaccines and other disease-related topics stir up strong religious and political passions among plenty of people.

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Centers for DISEASE Control should stick to studying diseases. NIOSH is largely a waste of money that could be better spent on real science. Malaria research > useless reports on how kids who accidentally shoot themselves are more likely to die from gun violence than kids who do not.

America is suffering an epidemic of gun violence. On average, a Mandalay Bay's worth of people kill themselves with a gun every day. Another 25 are killed by someone else with a gun.

Epidemic. Noun. A widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.

Gun violence is not a disease. CDC should stick to infectious diseases.

Oxford English Dictionary:

1.1. A sudden, widespread occurrence of an undesirable phenomenon.
‘an epidemic of violent crime’

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/epidemic

Maybe we should have a separate department just for metaphorical epidemics.

[pbrower2a]

Centers for DISEASE Control should stick to studying diseases. NIOSH is largely a waste of money that could be better spent on real science. Malaria research > useless reports on how kids who accidentally shoot themselves are more likely to die from gun violence than kids who do not.

America is suffering an epidemic of gun violence. On average, a Mandalay Bay's worth of people kill themselves with a gun every day. Another 25 are killed by someone else with a gun.

Epidemic. Noun. A widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.

Gun violence is not a disease. CDC should stick to infectious diseases.

Oxford English Dictionary:

1.1. A sudden, widespread occurrence of an undesirable phenomenon.
‘an epidemic of violent crime’

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/epidemic

Also... CDC would study an epidemic of cancer. which is not usually an infectious disease.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Crime is a disease...