With all due respect, Doc, in response to the "lack of funding" issues you mention, when part of the funds they DID get were spent promoting an anti gun agenda, I ain't at all hossin' to give 'em more.
I'm not keen on the CDC's politicized role in the gun control debate, but keep in mind that that was/is a tiny part of what CDC really does.
CDC's underfunding goes back to the 80's. Example: They desperately needed to build new state-of-the-art viral studies lab buildings at the BL-3 and BL-4 levels back in the late 80's, and Congress gave them $90 million toward that (about half of waht was needed). Before CDC could use that money as intended, Congress took half of that money away for "budget cuts".
It hasn't got any better since then, as far as I can ascertain.
