ABSTRACT
The modus operandi of the "new public health" was clearly defined in an article published in the August 1996 issue of Health Education Quarterly, which was widely distributed by the Office of Communications at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The article explains how "media advocacy" is fundamentally different from the traditional use of the media to provide health information to the public. Gun control advocates in the public health community don't believe Americans can be trusted to purchase firearms for their own protection. The CDC's funding of gun control "studies" under the assumption that guns are a "virus" and that gun ownership is a "disease" is absurd, especially coming from an organization comprised supposedly of medical professionals. If gun control advocates at the CDC want to abolish the Second Amendment to the US Constitution, they should do so by trying to amend the Constitution, not through legislation based on politically contrived and methodologically flawed "studies.".
