The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) has expressed its support for the Trump administration’s staff reductions at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), contrasting its view with the concerns voiced by the gun prohibition lobby.
SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb stated, “With these reductions, the government is no longer treating gun ownership as a communicable disease.”
The staff reductions, announced by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have drawn criticism from those in the gun control community, who argue that the cuts will weaken the federal government’s capacity for “gun violence” research.
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Gottlieb countered this perspective, saying, “Ever since the CDC inserted itself into the gun rights debate, the agency has spent millions of dollars to promote the notion that gun-related violence is a public health issue, and they’ve mostly gotten away with it, thanks largely to their allies in the media treating everything they say as gospel. But it’s not a ‘health crisis,’ it’s a crime problem, and the antidote is not restricting the rights of law-abiding gun owners, which CDC research invariably seems to suggest, but instead restricting the freedom of violent repeat offenders.”
Gottlieb further dismissed claims that the cuts have “decimated” staff involved in “gun violence research and prevention,” arguing that the research has not demonstrably prevented violent crime.
He characterized the ongoing research as a “perpetual ‘make work’ effort to keep the public funding flowing while gun owners are essentially treated like plague carriers, or lepers.”
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