And neither of those are being tackled at all. It's as it's all or nothing. I prefer always to tackle complex problems through multiple angles, because they are complex.

This is a problem. Government departments must have delimited authority and scope. There are other government and nonprofit entities tracking gun violence. Absolutely no need for CDC to get involved except for stupid politics. It's a distraction from their core mission.

Yes.

The folks who want us to pretend gun violence isn’t a problem also oppose mental health funding.

> Plenty of other organizations public and private already handling this issue.

So? We have more than one law enforcement agency, too.

> Should the department of HUD send rockets to space? Of course not.

Should the department of Health touch on a major health issue? Of course.

Answering that question takes less time than the comment took to type.

https://www.cdc.gov/transportation-safety/about/index.html

All external injuries (mostly traumas, but also burns, poison, frostbite, etc.) that result in deaths, no matter their intention (murder, accident, suicide) have 2 chapters dedicated in the International Classification of Diseases 10 (also 11). Yes, tracking what harms and kills people is kinda important from the public health standpoint, so that there are resources to deal with the injuries and educate in case of prevention. It also happens to be interested in work related injuries too!

https://icd.who.int/browse10/2019/en#/XIX

https://icd.who.int/browse10/2019/en#/XX

> but were they also tracking deatha from auto accidents and the like?

I mean, are we doing learned helplessness tonight or just pretending for rhetorical reasons or...?

https://www.cdc.gov/transportation-safety/index.html

Yeah maybe the CDC should get into the business of OSHA too.

It is the leading cause of death for children and teens.

It would be deeply political for the CDC to ignore the top cause of death of children in the USA.

If you oppose politicization of health, that should be an easy point of agreement.

Has the stability of CDC changed between this and the rest of presidencies, across the political spectrum?

Your angle reminds of a recent post -

> "John, when people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together."— Isaac Asimov, The Relativity of Wrong

No. The act of politics is dictating things based on a political ideology, for their advocacy or absence.

That's what you're doing, it's strict political advocacy.

I'm tired of people claiming something is political and then wanting to legislate it based on politics and claiming that isn't

The political thing is thinking studying gun violence is political.