{"id":39581,"date":"2015-07-07T17:24:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T21:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=39581"},"modified":"2015-07-07T17:24:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T20:51:22","slug":"boehner-halts-cdc-funded-firearms-research-because-a-gun-is-not-a-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/boehner-halts-cdc-funded-firearms-research-because-a-gun-is-not-a-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Boehner Halts CDC-Funded Firearms Research Because \u2018A Gun Is Not A Disease\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_39582\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Boehner.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"boehner-halts-cdc-funded-firearms-research-because-a-gun-is-not-a-disease\" title=\"Boehner Halts CDC-Funded Firearms Research Because \u2018A Gun Is Not A Disease\u2019\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39582\" title=\"Boehner Halts CDC-Funded Firearms Research Because \u2018A Gun Is Not A Disease\u2019\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39582\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Boehner-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Speaker of the House John Boehner.  (Photo: Politico)\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Boehner-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Boehner-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Boehner.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-39582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker of the House John Boehner. (<em>Photo: Politico<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Speaker of the House John Boehner and his colleagues not only shut down an offer from the Centers of Disease Control to conduct gun violence research, they also defended the constitutionality of Americans owning guns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cListen, the CDC is there to look at diseases that need to be dealt with to protect the public health,\u201d said Boehner. \u201cI\u2019m sorry, but a gun is not a disease. And guns don\u2019t kill people; people do. And when people use weapons in a horrible way, we should condemn the actions of the individual, not blame the action on some weapon. Listen, there are hundreds of millions of weapons in America. They\u2019re there. And they\u2019re going to be there. They\u2019re protected under the Second Amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boehner\u2019s statements, and especially his reference to what is generally known as one of the NRA\u2019s primary slogans, has brought the Speaker of the House some serious flak.<\/p>\n<p>Some have criticized his claim that firearms are protected under the Second Amendment, reasoning that as Boehner isn\u2019t an expert on Constitutional law, he\u2019s simply not qualified to make that sort of assertion. Of course, anyone with basic reading skills can comprehend the meaning of the Second Amendment, so I think it\u2019s safe to say Boehner has a pretty good handle on it as well.<\/p>\n<p>Boehner didn\u2019t come right out and say it, but there were likely other reasons for voting against CDC-funded gun violence research. Aside from the fact that the CDC aren\u2019t firearms \u201cexperts,\u201d there could be potential conflicts of interest in having them pour money into this type of research.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, most of this discussion is likely moot. Since 1998, the CDC has tried 38 times to fund gun violence research, and 38 times the Speaker of the House and his colleagues have declined.<\/p>\n<p>Think they\u2019ll try for a 39th?<\/p>\n<p>(<em>The following was a submission by freelance writer Brent Rogers<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cListen, the CDC is there to look at diseases that need to be dealt with to protect the public health,\u201d said Boehner. \u201cI\u2019m sorry, but a gun is not a disease.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":39582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,241,216,240],"tags":[132],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-rapid-fire","9":"category-s-h-blannelberry","10":"category-this-week","11":"tag-buzz"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Boehner Halts CDC-Funded Firearms Research Because \u2018A Gun Is Not A Disease\u2019<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cListen, the CDC is there to look at diseases that need to be dealt with to protect the public health,\u201d said Boehner. \u201cI\u2019m sorry... a gun is not a disease.&quot;\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/boehner-halts-cdc-funded-firearms-research-because-a-gun-is-not-a-disease\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Boehner Halts CDC-Funded Firearms Research Because \u2018A Gun Is Not A Disease\u2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cListen, the CDC is there to look at diseases that need to be dealt with to protect the public health,\u201d said Boehner. \u201cI\u2019m sorry, but a gun is not a disease.&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/boehner-halts-cdc-funded-firearms-research-because-a-gun-is-not-a-disease\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gun Reviews and News | GunsAmerica.com\/Digest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-07-07T21:24:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-18T20:51:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Boehner.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"S.H. 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