Cdc Study Shows Gun Law Failure
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STRAIGHT TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU CDC STUDY SHOWS CAN DO TO PRESERVE YOUR GUN LAW FAILURE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS CCRKBA officials said a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “proves what we have been saying for years” that gun control laws simply do not work. In a lengthy presentation, the CDC analyzed scientific evidence regarding “bans on specified firearms and ammunition, restrictions on firearm acqui- November sition (including waiting periods), firearm registration and licensing, con- cealed-carry laws, child-access-prevention laws, zero-tolerance laws for 2003 firearms in schools and combinations of firearm laws.” A CDC task force “found insufficient evidence to determine the effective- Volume XXVIII No. 11 ness of any of the firearm laws or combinations of laws reviewed on violent outcomes.” It also found that “firearms-related injuries in the United States have IN THIS ISSUE declined since 1993” despite the fact that “approximately 4.5 million new firearms are sold each year.” CDC Study: Gun Control A Failure 1 CCRKBA Executive Director Joe Waldron pointed out that, “for years, Airline Pilot Raps TSA 2 anti-gun groups, often citing the CDC’s earlier biased research, had claimed Dems Court Gun Owners 3 more gun laws will reduce violent crime and suicide. CDC stopped Citizen Action Project 3 conducting advocacy research in 1996 by order of Congress. Now, accord- GRPC: Smashing Success 4-5 ing to more balanced research, the CDC basically is acknowledging that its Defender of the Month 6 earlier efforts, and those of extremist gun grabbers, have been all wet.” Quick Shots 7 Yet the CDC, evidently unhappy with the available research, wants to study the issue more, arguing that there is “insufficient evidence to deter- mine the effectiveness of any of the firearm laws reviewed for preventing violence.” CITIZENS The report brought an incredulous comment from Peter Hamm with the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, known formerly as Handgun COMMITTEE Control, Inc. “It’s hard to study whether gun control laws work in this FOR THE RIGHT country because we have so few of them,” he said. “Hamm is half-baked,” blistered CCRKBA Chairman Alan M. Gottlieb. TO KEEP AND “Gun control in this country is heavily regulated by a Pandora’s Box of BEAR ARMS federal, state and local gun laws, many which often conflict with one another to the point that private citizens cannot know whether they are (a non-profit corporation) obeying a law while breaking another. The CDC report seems to confirm National Headquarters: what we’ve been saying all along. Gun control laws have no impact on 12500 N.E. Tenth Place Bellevue, Washington 98005 criminals, only law-abiding citizens who don’t commit crimes. To suggest we need more laws when the ones already passed as successive panaceas Capitol Hill Office: apparently haven’t worked is ludicrous. 1090 Vermont Ave., N.W., Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20005 “The CDC’s suggestion for additional studies, simply because they don’t like the results of their own research, is like treating a patient with drugs that you know aren’t working, and then giving him more of the same drugs.” Page 2 November 2003 AIRLINE PILOT RAPS TSA DURING HOUSTON GRPC An outspoken and well-spoken judged unfit was a former 10-year a panacea for terrorist hijackings, United States private airline pilot DEA/Customs agent. Other disquali- just a vital layer of defense. A cock- ripped into bureaucratic foot-drag- fied candidates are current or former pit armed with lethal force is the first ging on the part of the Transporta- military pilots who carry missiles and line of deterrence and the final line tion Security Administration during in some cases a firearm when flying of defense. the recent Gun Rights Policy Con- for the National Guard, but are “It is time to start treating airline ference in Houston, Texas. judged incompetent to carry a fire- pilots as the responsible profession- First Officer Rob Davie, a Board arm when flying airliners. als they are and to take advantage of Member of the Airline Pilots’ Secu- The TSA also requires pilots to carry this critical and inexpensive resource. rity Alliance (APSA), criticized the their guns in lockboxes, anytime they The pilots that volunteer for this do TSA for its failure to implement the leave he cockpit. One of the most so on their own time and do not armed pilots program, a public policy valuable times for an airliner, ac- even get paid for this vital service. advocated initially by CCRKBA im- cording to Davie, is exactly then. It’s time to get serious about airline mediately following the September Deadheading pilots must carry their security.” 11, 2001 militant islamist airline ter- weapons in lockboxes in the cargo rorist attacks on the World Trade hold, dramatically increasing the Center and the Pentagon. odds of loss, theft and accidents as In a dramatic presentation, Davie the firearm is moved about. No other demonstrated how terrorists can take law enforcement agency even allows over an aircraft in flight when nei- its officers to carry firearms “off- ther the pilot nor the co-pilot is body” for safety/security reasons. armed. While armed employees of 26 agen- He noted that, late last year, Con- cies like the Library of Congress and gress overwhelmingly passed legis- the U.S. Printing Office are permit- lation directing the TSA to arm ted to carry concealed firearms on America’s airline pilots to allow them their persons in the aircraft cabin, “Straight talk about what you can do to to protect their passengers and air- Federal Flight Deck Officers must preserve your right to keep and bear arms.” craft against terrorist hijackings. The pack them away in a box. Editor John M. Snyder TSA, admittedly opposed to the pro- When Congress told TSA to hire Publisher Alan M. Gottlieb gram, responded with antipathy to- bag screeners, APSA notes, TSA spent Managing Editors J. H. Versnel ward Congress and our nation’s $700 million, and hired 60,000 in Dave Workman Associate Editors Tom Gresham pilots, designing a program so rife about a year. Almost a year after Merrill Jacobs with roadblocks and nonsensical Congress told TSA to arm airline Bob Kukla practices, it is doomed to failure. pilots, there is only one small train- Herb Stupp Peggy Tartaro In an attempt to discourage volun- ing facility, and only about a hun- Joe Waldron teers, and disqualify pilots, accord- dred FFDOs have been authorized. POINT BLANK is published monthly ing to APSA, TSA requires psychiatric Davie and APSA believe “it is time by Citizens Committee for the Right to interviews, tests and observations, to treat arming our nation’s pilots as Keep and Bear Arms, Liberty Park, and onerous redundant background the national emergency it is. No 12500 N.E. Tenth Place, Bellevue, Washington 98005. investigations of pilots who have al- more than a fraction of flights will ready passed the required layers of ever carry air marshals; no screening Copyright © 2003 CCRKBA screening repeatedly to fly multimil- system will ever keep a terrorist from Correspondence and manuscripts should be sent to POINT BLANK, CCRKBA, 1090 Vermont Ave., lion-dollar airliners. Our own gov- getting weapons through. Commer- N.W., Suite 800, Washington, D.C. 20005 ernment admits these same aircraft cial airliners remain, for the most Address Change: Write new address, city, state, and zip code on a plain piece of paper. Attach in the wrong hands are weapons of part, defenseless against attack. The mailing label from an issue of POINT BLANK and send to CCRKBA, 12500 N.E. Tenth Place, mass destruction. The psychiatric government has announced the Bellevue, Washington 98005. Please allow four to screening is in excess of that given to threat of more hijackings in the near six weeks for change to become effective. air marshals. One of the pilots TSA future. Arming pilots is by no means November 2003 Page 3 DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP COUNCIL COURTING GUN OWNERS WITH FRAUD The Citizens Committee for the for Democrats to Promote Responsi- old smell. Right to Keep and Bear Arms bility and Win the Gun Vote.” “By meeting with AGS,” Waldron (CCRKBA)called the Democratic “Without inviting any true gun continued, “Democrats are trying to Leadership Council’s joint confer- rights organizations to the table,” convince voters, and especially gun ence in Atlanta with the anti-gun Gottlieb stated, “the DLC continues owners, that they are pro-gun. Look Americans for Gun Safety “a fraud to wrap itself in rhetoric. It’s camou- at the AGS record, and you find this designed to fool gun owners into flage, and hunters know about cam- organization has supported every thinking that Democrats are truly ouflage. Camo is designed to conceal gun control measure to come down interested in gun rights, when they something from view, and in this the legislative pike since it was are really pushing gun control dis- case, what Democrats are trying to founded. They’re not a gun rights guised as gun safety.” conceal is the same old gun control organization. They’re not even a gun The DLC and AGS conference was agenda they’ve had all along, by re- safety organization. They’re a gun entitled “God, Guns and Guts: Seiz- packaging it as something else.” control group.” ing the Cultural Center.” It was an CCRKBA Executive Director Joe “Until the Democrats sit down with effort, according to published re- Waldron added, “Their own poll- true gun rights organizations and ports, to portray the Democratic ster, Mark Penn, who worked for leaders,” Gottlieb said, “their pro- Party as more pro-gun.