NRA members have long known that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been on a multi-decade mission to paint gun ownership as a “disease” that needs to be eradicated from American life.
I remember back in the ‘90s when Mark Rosenberg, director of the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention, was quoted in The Washington Post: “We need to revolutionize the way we look at guns, like what we did with cigarettes. It used to be that smoking was a glamour symbol—cool, sexy, macho. Now it is dirty, deadly—and banned.”