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March 6th, 2016 
Awake Goy 
Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Media Spokesperson, HEALTH MAX Brands
Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president and CEO of the National Rifle Association (NRA), said some ironic things about the president’s knowledge of guns at the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
The CPAC event was a gun-free zone which meant that there were no “good guys with guns” present at the time LaPierre pontificated about the 2nd Amendment.
With visceral confidence, the head of the NRA chided President Obama for not responding to his calls for a debate on guns: “He’ll keep hiding behind his podium and rigged appearances like all the other truth-dodging politicians, and then he’ll lecture us on what’s wrong with our rights, while day by day, all over this country, more and more people grow more and more disgusted, enraged, and determined to just throw them all out.”
LaPierre said: “We know a liar when we see one. We also know a political coward when we see one. President Obama, he’s never going to debate me on guns. His knowledge on that issue wouldn’t fill a thimble, and he knows it. I would clean his clock, and he knows it.”
The ironic part about LaPierre’s statements is that they are true in the sense that because of legislative blockages created by Congressional members who were also affiliated with the NRA, very few people on Capitol Hill know much of anything about guns.
In fact, for the last 20 years the NRA has been successful in blocking the US government from conducting research into gun violence thanks to people like former Republican Congressman Jay Dickey who authored the infamous Dickey-Wicker Amendment (DWA) in 1995.
According to this rider, the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education were restricted from using appropriated funds to research into firearms ownership and its effect on public health.
The Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was stripped of the $2.6 million they were slated to use to research into gun violence because of language in the DWA that reads: “None of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun control.”
In 2009, a study produced by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine (PSM) at the University of Pennsylvania (UP) caught the attention of Republican lawmakers because it showed a correlation between gun possession and assaults with firearms.
The DWA was invoked to prevent epidemiological investigations by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) into gun-related deaths.
The application of the DWA assisted NRA-funded Republicans in restricting the National Institutes of Health from spending taxpayer monies on gun violence research in 2011. They cited the fact that “a gun is not a disease” and pointed toward non-government research available to determine the impact of gun ownership on the general public.
For the last 4 years, President Obama has called for federal bureaucracies to interpret the DWA literally; and stop equating research with advocacy.
Garen Wintenute, director of the Violence Prevention Research Program (VPR) at the University of California at Davis (UCD) pointed out that because “there is no research” into gun violence, “it is harder to make suggestions for policy reform.”
Wintenute said: “And if you have a vested interest in stopping policy reform, what better way to do it than to choke off the research? It was brilliant and it worked. And my question is how many people died as a result?”
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