Framing research as anti-gun propaganda led to budget cuts.

Evidence

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funded research on gun-related injuries and deaths as a public health issue. Ken Cox, the chief lobbyist for the NRA, pressed for the elimination of the injury center on the grounds that “they were promoting the idea that gun ownership was a disease that needed to be eradicated.” Efforts by progun legislators to eliminate the center failed, but they stripped the budget for it. The congressman who spearheaded the budgetary amendment reflected on the reason for the prohibition: “We have the right to bear arms because of the threat of government taking over the freedoms that we have.” Funding for firearms research has been cut not only at the CDC, but at the Justice Department as well. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1188

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: how moral framing (‘a disease that needs eradicating’) is used to block evidence-gathering—an instance of undermining the messenger rather than engaging data.
• XREF: Echoes how the reader’s existing claims treat instrumental deployment of issue-framing to protect in-group policy preferences regardless of harm.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1188