But there is a reason she wants the funding and there is an even better reason that the funding is banned. The 1996 ban on the CDC “researching” gun violence came about because at its core, the CDC is staffed by partisan Democrats. Their first mode of attack is to declare something to be a “public health” threat and then they go about trying to legislate and regulate their way forward. For instance, obesity is a health risk factor. Depending upon your genetics obesity may or may not be an important consideration. In 1998, CDC led the effort to redefine the BMI for “overweight” from 27.8 to 25. Literally, overnight 29 million Americans went from a healthy weight to overweight. This change was a boon for CDC, it got a lot more money to research the “obesity epidemic”, and for Pharma, which wants to find a pill to fix weight…