CDC Director Calls Gun Violence ‘A Very Serious Health Threat’

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The director of the nation’s top public health agency has been blasted for appearing on CNN to talk about the ‘serious public health threat’ of…gun violence

Following her CNN interview, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Rochelle Walensky is facing a backlash

“Something has to be done,” she said, later recalling a promise to President Joe Biden to ‘protect’ the health of the US, which apparently includes gun violence.

“I swore to the president and to this country that I would protect your health. This is clearly one of those moments, one of those issues that is harming America’s health,” she said. 

RT reports: Biden previously referred to gun violence as a “public health epidemic.”

The CDC is currently spending millions on research projects meant to curb gun violence, as well as tracking gunshot injuries. 

“My job is to understand and evaluate the problem, to understand the scope of the problem, to understand why this happens and what are the things that can make it better – to research that, to scale that up, to evaluate it and to make sure that we can integrate it into communities,” Walensky said. 

She claimed any potential CDC efforts on gun violence will not be about taking away people’s guns.

This is not a conversation about having them or not having them. This is a conversation about how we can make them being here safe,” she said. “The research that we intend to do is going to be squarely about making America safe. Making people safe.”

Considering the Covid-19 pandemic is still greatly affecting communities and businesses, and health officials are regularly pushing citizens to get lagging vaccination rates up, many took to social media to express shock at Walensky’s focus on gun violence for an entire CNN report amid pandemic struggles. The network was also criticized for airing the report amid the chaos in Afghanistan as the US military continues to evacuate citizens and allies following an Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) attack on Thursday.

“Nice to see @cnn has moved on to the totally normal discussion of the CDC Director discussing guns (again, totally normal discussion) instead of covering an international tragedy,” conservative pundit Chris Stigall tweeted.

“Good to know that all disease is apparently under control now,” another user added

13 Comments

  1. Remember if there is a real insurrection, Atlanta has underground tunnels everywhere, so the CDC has plenty of places for the ‘rats’ to escape.

  2. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/683034b01476519e45d3231f7617485923b304c072394c020ec0f72c1eadb640.jpg
    The CDC requires morgues in the US to report detailed information on all deaths. One of the data elements is whether or not the death was a murder (assault), and another element is the race of the murdered victim. This Table shows the Race of all the murdered victims as a proportion.

    Since The Black Race only represents 13% of the population in the US, the CDC doesn’t need to spend a whole lot of time and money to figure out what the problem is. If more of the Black community were to join the economic middle class through education, the number of murders in the US could be cut in half.

    • you should move to the UK. Leave our nation alone with its constitution intact.
      there are many countries in Europe that you will be happy living in.
      We like our freedoms and our constitutions. leave us alone please.

      • Howdy Christian Lords. No one asked me to move to the UK while I was fighting for our Constitution (my avatar is a picture of myself). As a matter of fact, there were several people who were extremely happy that I was there to help. That aside, I’m honestly confused about what I must have I said that prompted your remark. With all respect, I would appreciate any clarification. Especially if your comment is with respect to my CDC comment. On the other hand, as you probably recall, we have previously shared comments regarding our differences on Jewish people. But I can’t see how my opposition to those views could be perceived as in opposition to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. I fully accept that many Jewish people have no respect for non Jewish people. But I can say the same thing about some people in every Race and Ethnicity. For that matter, one out of every 25 people is a Sociopath. They harm people as a means of satisfying their reason for living. They will drop a neighbor’s cat in a dumpster, give classified secrets to an enemy, throw wrenches in a ship’s transmission, throw puppies off of cliffs, tell colleagues that they are late for a non existent meeting, spill drinks on keyboards, make intentional coding errors, intentionally insult people on blogs just to get them upset, the list goes on and on; and all without any apparent motive other than to make life a little more uncomfortable for some other person that they may not even know. By the way, I appreciate how deep your beliefs are, and I am very grateful that you have had as much patience with my opposing views as you’ve had, both now and in the past. As I recall, you told me that you once worked for them and originally had nothing but respect for them. I don’t know what happened to you, but the experience clearly hardened your heart towards them. I suppose a survivor of a WW2 Japanese prisoner of War camp might have a similar reaction to the Japanese people. So, in that respect, I can see that the Jewish people, who apparently traumatized you (and let’s face it, they are a subset of the Jewish Culture), worked hard to create the distrust that you have toward them. If representatives of a particular culture harm enough people, there will be a cultural backlash. And since their culture puts so much emphasis on education, the Jewish culture is in a place to traumatize a larger proportion of people than their small numbers would normally have access to. This is beginning to sound like a class in Cultural Anthropology. My apology. Let me just say that, although I appreciate how you reached your opinion, I link my fears of evil people whose personalities are in common with greed and avarice, rather than a specific religion (even though a disproportionately large percentage of them are Jewish people). I appreciate that George Soros, Armand Hammer, and Bernard L. Schwartz are all extremely evil people.

      • Howdy Christian Lords. No one asked me to move to the UK while I was fighting for our Constitution (my avatar is a picture of myself). As a matter of fact, there were several people who were extremely happy that I was there to help. That aside, I’m honestly confused about what I must have I said that prompted your remark. With all respect, I would appreciate any clarification. Especially if your comment is with respect to my CDC comment.

        • i hate to break it to you, but you were not fighting for your constitution, you were doing Israel’s bidding. Accomplishing goals for Israel. Sad fact, not your fault. you were lied to.
          Were you not wanting to take our guns away?

          • Howdy Christian Lords. I’m glad to correct a misperception. Of course I respectfully disagree with your assessment that I was fighting for Israel, but that’s another thread. In direct answer to your question, I absolutely support the second amendment. And I recognize that there have been terrible abuses by the government in taking away guns without due process. A woman who falsely accuses her estranged lover of physical abuse in order to “punish” him should be charged with a felony. That said, every High School in America should be taught what the limits of gun ownership are. Not the “Woke” version, the actual laws on the books. I can go on, but that’s another thread again. My original comment is about how to reduce murders, not just gun violence, by bringing more of the Black community into the economic middle class through education. Taking away guns would amplify the murders of innocent people, not reduce them. A gun makes a 15 year old girl equal to a 300 pound fullback, IF the girl knows how to use it. Taking that gun away always means the biggest and most heartless guy wins.

          • Howdy Christian Lords. As you know, we both disagree with each other on that point. And that’s fine. But I am happy that we both agree on a strong Second Amendment. One thing I would ask though, just as a matter of curiosity. And I know that this is off thread a bit. What is it, in your view, that is Israel’s goal? And should I assume that you are speaking about the country, when you say “Israel”? Are we talking about money, the country’s existence, the defeat of its enemies? Or is it something else? I can share my views of our goal if you desire.

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