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When Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health recently unveiled the 2025 National Survey of Gun Policy, the headlines were predictable: Americans supposedly back stricter storage rules, licensing requirements and red-flag laws. But behind the numbers lies a familiar story: one of billionaire Michael Bloomberg's money, political agendas dressed up as "science" and a survey designed to produce the outcome its sponsors already wanted.
The Center for Gun Violence Solutions, created in 2022 through Bloomberg's partnership with Johns Hopkins, makes no secret of its mission.
"We will now have even more capacity to bring meaningful policy change through evidence-based advocacy," its co-director, Daniel Webster, declared upon launch.
That language reveals the real goal. This is not neutral scholarship. It is advocacy research with a built-in destination: more restrictions on the Second Amendment.
Bloomberg's fingerprints are everywhere, and he has been involved with Johns Hopkins for decades, pumping in billions over the years with the school renaming its School of Hygiene and Public Health after him all the way back in 2001.
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