{"id":108098,"date":"2025-03-07T19:43:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T01:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=108098"},"modified":"2025-03-07T19:43:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T01:43:27","slug":"108098","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=108098","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Shocker: Bloomberg-funded gun control center prescribes more gun control<\/a><\/p>\n

By Salam Fatohi<\/p>\n

A recent Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health report came out with several recommendations to reduce \u201cgun violence.\u201d The five-point plan, constructed by the school\u2019s \u201cConsortium for Risk-Based Firearm Policy,\u201d promotes the idea that gun ownership would be better treated as a privilege and not as a right guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution for all law-abiding citizens.<\/p>\n

That consortium is part of Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions, which views \u201cgun violence\u201d as a \u201cpublic health emergency.\u201d That\u2019s the same sort of language that foisted disproven mask mandates and vaccinations to prevent COVID-19, which were later revealed to do nothing to stop the pandemic\u2019s spread and the vaccine regimen didn\u2019t actually vaccinate at all. NSSF has said it before. Criminal misuse of firearms isn\u2019t a disease. It\u2019s a crime issue. Treating crime as a public health crisis that can be \u201ccured\u201d is, and will always be, ineffective. Stopping crime means enforcing criminal laws against criminals that commit crimes.<\/p>\n

This is the same \u201cgun control in a lab coat\u201d approach that former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy took in the waning days of the Biden administration, after he promised Congress he wouldn\u2019t. Of course, the Johns Hopkins consortium report doesn\u2019t recommend locking up criminals that break the law. It recommends new restrictive gun licensing laws that only create barriers to lawful firearm ownership by those who don\u2019t break the law.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Call it Crime
\nIt shouldn\u2019t take a doctorate degree to understand that criminals, by the very definition, don\u2019t follow the law. Layering on new laws won\u2019t make criminals stop committing crimes. What does stop them is putting them behind bars.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the \u201csmart\u201d people at Johns Hopkins came up with their five-point plan for gun licensing they claim would bring down the rates of \u201cgun violence.\u201d That plan recommends that in order for law-abiding citizens to purchase guns, states adopt proof of firearm safety training, fingerprint every prospective gun purchaser, conduct in-person interviews to obtain a permit-to-purchase a firearm, endure a \u201ccomprehensive\u201d background check and be subject to waiting periods before taking possession of a firearm even after having passed a \u201ccomprehensive\u201d background check.<\/p>\n

These recommendations are fraught with problems. First among them are questions of whether these would intrude on rights protected by the Second Amendment. The \u201csmart\u201d people at Johns Hopkins pitch their permit-to-purchase idea as \u201censuring that only eligible and responsible people can legally purchase firearms.\u201d<\/p>\n

That begs the question, though, that if the problem isn\u2019t with law-abiding gun owners, how would this prevent prohibited individuals from obtaining firearms? Those are individuals who have been convicted of a felony, been involuntarily committed to a mental health facility or aren\u2019t of legal age.<\/p>\n

The consortium\u2019s report admits that those who are ineligible or would illegally straw purchase a firearm for someone who can\u2019t buy one on their own, wouldn\u2019t be deterred. However, they fail to mention that criminals convicted of their crimes involving firearms admitted that they obtained their gun illegally. A Bureau of Justice Statistics survey showed that in 2016, 90 percent of criminals convicted of a crime involving a firearm admitted to obtaining it illegally. Most of them got the gun they used in a crime through the black market. The FBI warns that firearm theft is a growing concern as a source of criminally-obtained firearms.<\/p>\n

Rejected Policy
\nAnother of the consortium\u2019s recommendations is a gun control policy masquerading as a \u201cpublic health emergency.\u201d The policy they want states to adopt is \u201cuniversal background checks,\u201d which necessitates a national firearm registry to work. That idea was rejected by Congress because it would put every law-abiding American on a government watch list, simply for exercising their rights to keep and bear arms.<\/p>\n

Recent history has shown that states are irresponsible with gun owners\u2019 private information. It\u2019s been conveniently \u201cleaked\u201d by states perennially pushing more gun control. The private data of over 190,000 Californians with concealed carry permits was \u201cleaked\u201d and downloaded about 2,734 times. The names and addresses of handgun permit holders in two New York counties were published on an interactive map, jeopardizing their safety and creating a criminals\u2019 Christmas list of where they know they could try to steal guns.<\/p>\n

The consortium says none of this should be of legal concern. Their report notes that the U.S. Supreme Court struck down New York\u2019s \u201cmay issue\u201d concealed carry licensing law over the proper cause requirement. However, they argue that lower courts are grappling with whether those same standards should apply to state permits-to-purchase, even going as far as saying those permit restrictions, which would include an in-person interview to justify a purchase, would be constitutional under the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n

They cited Illinois\u2019s Firearm Owner Identification (FOID) card. That state law required an individual to obtain a state permission slip to buy a gun or ammunition. The report fails to mention that the requirement was just ruled unconstitutional for an individual possessing a firearm in their own home. When it comes to the consortium\u2019s recommendation for a mandatory waiting period for lawful firearm purchases, a federal court in Maine just enjoined the state\u2019s 72-hour waiting period law violates Second Amendment rights.<\/p>\n

Same Players, Old Ideas
\nThese aren\u2019t novel ideas. They\u2019ve been rinsed and repeated by gun control groups, policy think tanks and medical professionals for decades in the hopes of instituting gun control under the guise of a \u201cpublic health emergency.\u201d It\u2019s easy to trace the agenda when someone traces the money. The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Gun Violence Solutions is funded by none other than antigun billionaire Michael Bloomberg. He\u2019s the same gun control fat cat that bankrolls Everytown for Gun Safety and March for Our Lives gun control groups, as well as The Trace. He drops tens of millions into Congressional and presidential races to advance his gun control vision. He even flirted with his own presidential run before flaming out after admitting guns were fine for him but not every other law-abiding American.<\/p>\n

The consortium\u2019s report was also funded by The Joyce Foundation, which regularly partners with universities to propel their gun control agenda. The Joyce Foundation \u201cfinanced scholarships for law schools to promote a legal theory that the Second Amendment does not protect an individual\u2019s right to bear arms, claiming the amendment guaranteed a state government\u2019s right to arm an organized militia,\u201d according to InfluenceWatch.org. When the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the individual right to keep and bear arms under Heller, The Joyce Foundation switched tactics, labeling gun control as a \u201cpublic health\u201d issue.<\/p>\n

The Joyce Foundation also gave \u201ctens of millions of dollars to fund more than 100 antigun grants to researchers at Harvard University, the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence, International Association of Chiefs of Police, Freedom States Alliance, Iowans for the Prevention of Gun Violence, the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, and Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort. In past years, the organization has devoted 10 percent of its outlays to gun control grants,\u201d according to InfluenceWatch.org.<\/p>\n

The board of directors and day-to-day leadership include gun control advocates, and even former President Barack Obama was on the board from 1994-2002.<\/p>\n

These smart people at universities should know by now that their attempts to wrap a political agenda in a white lab coat isn\u2019t the prescription that will work. The American public deserves better than gun control disguised as a cure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shocker: Bloomberg-funded gun control center prescribes more gun control By Salam Fatohi A recent Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health report came out with several recommendations to reduce \u201cgun violence.\u201d The five-point plan, constructed by the school\u2019s \u201cConsortium for Risk-Based Firearm Policy,\u201d promotes the idea that gun ownership would be better treated as a … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-propaganda-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108151,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108098\/revisions\/108151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}