"[7] The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) responded to Rosenberg and others by claiming that the CDC was biased against guns, and lobbied to eliminate the NCIPC.
[10] In a complex arena of debate involving assessment of risk and regulation,[11] Rosenberg is frequently referenced for comments in a New York Times article in 1994,[12][13] in which he was quoted as saying “We need to revolutionize the way we look at guns, like we did with cigarettes.
[15] It also resulted in the ending of Rosenberg's position;[16] he left the CDC in 1999 and joined the Task Force for Global Health, of which he became president and CEO.
[1] Rosenberg continued to be highly critical of the Dickey Amendment, saying in 2012 that the National Rifle Association of America (which lobbied Congress to enact this restriction) has "terrorized" the scientific community.
Dickey and Rosenberg worked together to try to restore federal funding for research and to promote gun safety as a means towards public health.
Indeed, scientific research helped reduce the motor vehicle death rate in the United States and save hundreds of thousands of lives—all without getting rid of cars.
For example, research led to the development of simple four-foot barricades dividing oncoming traffic that are preventing injuries and saving many lives.