OSHA pick Michaels will use 'public health' scheme to 'regulate' guns

August 19, 9:19 AMGun Rights ExaminerDavid Codrea

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We talked yesterday about anti-gun David Michaels, Obama's pick to head the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. And we saw that a "public health" excuse for infringing on the right to keep and bear arms has been used in the past. Continuing from "Second Opinion: Measuring the Violence":

A pilot project at CDC in the 1990s to monitor firearm fatalities drew ire from gun advocates and was stopped after three years. Now all money appropriated to CDC to study injuries comes with a stipulation from Congress that the funds cannot be used to advocate for gun control.

Why was that? From "The Perversion of Science and Medicine (Part III): Public Health and Gun Control Research," by Miguel A. Faria, Jr., M.D.:

...Dr. Mark Rosenberg, Director of the CDC's National Center for Injury Control and Prevention (NCIPC) in 1994 told The Washington Post: "We need to revolutionize the way we look at guns, like what we did with cigarettes. Now it [sic] is dirty, deadly, and banned."

Does anyone doubt that Michaels will bring a similarly creative agenda to apply through regulatory measures under the guise of "occupational safety and health"?

I'll wrap this up in my next column, where we'll look at what Michaels' confirmation will mean and also examine the possibility of derailing it when the Senate reconvenes next month. Gun owners probably can't--and shouldn't have to--do that alone.