The Danger Of Government Control

The Jawa Report posts an interesting warning:

Gun Control - A Public Health Issue?

Not a big surprise.

In a very quiet development last month, the National Institute of Health (NIH) began studying gun violence after a 13 year ban on the topic.

In 1996 Congress stripped the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of its $2.6 million dollar annual funding for firearm injuries. The Bush administration continued this ban while in control of the agency. At the time, Former Senate Majority leader Bob Dole and Former Senator Trent Lott argued gun related violence was not a public health concern and therefore not under the jurisdiction of the CDC.

Interestingly, the same gun control advocates who are steamrolling a massive government takeover of health care are looking for ways to make the right to bear arms a public health issue.

I suggest it's not a coincidence that gun control is being snared into the universe of health-related crises requiring government action at the same time the government is swallowing the health industry.

Here's my concern with this...if DemCare is passed into law, everything will be subject to it.  In the name of the 'public good' or 'what's good for you', the government will argue that anything that could possibly pose any danger at all to anyone should thus be tightly controlled by the government.

Even if there's a 2nd Amendment right to it.

There's my two cents.