House Republicans just voted to prohibit the CDC from studying gun deaths and gun injuries. [More]
And here I thought it was just to stop tax plunder from being used to stump for citizen disarmament
Dr. Mark Rosenberg, Director of the CDC’s National Center for Injury Control and Prevention (NCIPC) in 1994 told The Washington Post: “We need to revolutionize the way we look at guns, like what we did with cigarettes. Now it [sic] is dirty, deadly, and banned.”
[Via Jess]
These five rules of propaganda have been known for a long time, and they are certainly not original with myself. They can be found on the inetrnet through searches. Please send them around so that more people will be aware of them. Thank You.
The Five Rules of Propaganda
1. The rule of simplification – reducing all data to a simple confrontation between ‘Good and Bad’, ‘Friend and Foe’.
2. The rule of disfiguration – discrediting the opposition by crude smears and parodies.
3. The rule of transfusion – manipulating the consensus values of the target audience for one’s own ends.
4. The rule of unanimity – presenting one’s viewpoint as if it were unanimous opinion of all right-thinking people: draining the doubting individual into agreement by the appeal of star-performers, by social pressure , and by ‘psychological contagion’.
5. The rule of orchestration – endlessly repeating the same messages in different variations and combinations.
That doctor thought cigarettes were banned?
Interesting!
Did he think the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban banned any assault weapons?
(It didn’t. It banned future production but stock still in the distribution pipeline and held in civilian hands were unaffected. In addition, manufacturers were able to remove one or more cosmetic features and continue as before. Post ban examples were often missing the bayonet lug and/or had a flash hider with the slots not milled all the way through. Imagine a cigarette ban where they could be sold as long as the paper used wasn’t white.)
Probability of this clause surviving to passage of the bill: 0, zip, nada.
Wake me when these guys exercise something more than posturing.
Even if what they said were true, so what? What part of a gun is the “disease,” that would make it relevant to the Centers for Disease Control?