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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 13 Jun 2016

    Whatever your opinions, the ban on CDC gun research is madness. Sign a petition to reverse it.https://goo.gl/dszbTS 

    2:43 PM - 13 Jun 2016
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      1.  ♿FU 🔧‏ @BrokenRazer 13 Jun 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        Do opinions of doctors who testified to Congress about CDC's fraud count? http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/261307-why-congress-stopped-gun-control-activism-at-the-cdc … @sapinkerpic.twitter.com/fNF2bssrVS

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      2. kata‏ @cata_bgd 13 Jun 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        looks like CDC is experiencing a major mission creep.

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      3. David Owen‏ @davidowen_sd 14 Jun 2016
        Replying to @cata_bgd @sapinker

        do we really need the cdc to tell us how insane our gun laws are ? To me this is a red herring

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      4. 🅲🆁🆄🅴🅻‏ @Cruel_Coppinger 14 Jun 2016
        Replying to @davidowen_sd @cata_bgd @sapinker

        Nope, but further CDC led research would add weight http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34996604 …pic.twitter.com/32f1uOaB5C

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      5. David Owen‏ @davidowen_sd 14 Jun 2016
        Replying to @Cruel_Coppinger @cata_bgd @sapinker

        I agree it would add weight. That makes their agenda more political than scientific as well.

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      1. CouchRambo‏ @CouchRambo 14 Jun 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        CDC has nothing to do with guns bro.

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      1. Ciaran Wallace‏ @oldbencjw 13 Jun 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        that's like banning research into the effects of smoking

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      1. BBopen‏ @Bbopen 13 Jun 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @SamHarrisOrg 1: It's not true. Ban lifted 3 years ago. 2: guns are among the most studied inanimate objects

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      1. Justice Beer 3D 🍺 🇺🇸‏ @RedFizo1 13 Jun 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        Not a ban on research, a ban on funding biased #gunsense/#guncontrol research. https://drgo.us/?p=2192  @sapinker @hashtagcpt

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      2. Thales‏ @InjuredThales 13 Jun 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        How are guns relevant to the CDC? How is preventing a government agency from performing highly politicized research madness?

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      3. Jorge Santisteban‏ @JoSantisteban 13 Jun 2016
        Replying to @InjuredThales @sapinker

        because we have 30,000 a people a year with bullet holes..I call that a health issue..

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      4. Thales‏ @InjuredThales 13 Jun 2016
        Replying to @JoSantisteban @sapinker

        Cars kill and injure far more. Accidental deaths at hospitals are estimated to be in the 200-400K range.

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      5. Jorge Santisteban‏ @JoSantisteban 13 Jun 2016
        Replying to @InjuredThales @sapinker

        no far less car fatalities now, why? Because the CDC analyze and made studies. Plus cars are accidents guns are not

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      6. Thales‏ @InjuredThales 13 Jun 2016
        Replying to @JoSantisteban @sapinker

        CDC had next to nothing to do with that. Hospitals? Heart disease? Cancer? MRSA? Have those battles been won?

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      7. Jorge Santisteban‏ @JoSantisteban 13 Jun 2016
        Replying to @InjuredThales @sapinker

        if you think we cannot apply the same to the fraking gun epidemic we have..you are willfully blind..

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      8. Thales‏ @InjuredThales 13 Jun 2016
        Replying to @JoSantisteban @sapinker

        I believe a lot of science has been directed at reducing fatality from gun injuries, likewise in opposite direction

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      9. Thales‏ @InjuredThales 13 Jun 2016
        Replying to @InjuredThales @JoSantisteban @sapinker

        I just don't think the CDC is an appropriate organization to be conducting research on this issue.

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      1. Brett Morrison‏ @brettmorrison 14 Jun 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @rjblaskiewicz some people intuitively know facts will go against their beliefs so they ban the gathering of information.

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