One thing the health authorities across the West are strong on is gun control. Some people commit suicide by guns, therefore guns are a health issue. Most of these authorities want guns totally banned; not the police and security thugs who protect them, but guns for ordinary people. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is one example, and is now intending to focus on gun violence, which shows that it just has too much free time on its hands. However, this organisation, and most others ignores research indicating that in the United States alone, up to 2.5 million cases of self defence with a gun occur each year. The CDC has focussed upon gun-related crimes, violence and injuries, and naturally creates a bias by not considering positive aspects of gun ownership, as do all gun control advocates. As documented below, the CDC under pressure from the gun control lobby, buried evidence relating to self defence with a gun. And, when one thinks about it, what more basic health issue could there be, than resisting being raped, assaulted and/or killed, by a stronger opponent?
https://www.americas1stfreedom.org/content/the-cdc-isn-t-about-science-it-s-about-gun-control/