On Aug. 8, CDC staff in Atlanta came under attack . A gunman fired hundreds of rounds at CDC’s campus, shattering 150 windows. While the public health experts crouched under their desks and their expelled colleagues watched the TV news in despair, many felt it to be the obvious result of the slander, disinformation campaigns, and conspiracy theories wielded against them for months by President Trump, amplified by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Now, they thought bitterly, American citizens are literally shooting at us.

Of course, in April, the entire Gun Violence Prevention team within CDC’s Injury Center had been RIF’d — as federal employees refer to those reduction in force layoffs — so no one conversant with the underlying causes of gun violence was availab

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