7 governors band together to form gun violence research bloc

By Chris Eger

The heads of six states and Puerto Rico on Wednesday announced the creation of the joint Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium.
The governors of Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island joined with Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló to launch the project, organized by the Rockefeller Institute of Government, a public policy think tank of the State University of New York.
The move is labeled by the governors, mostly Democrats with a history of signing sweeping gun control measures into law, as filling the gap left since the 1996 Dickey Amendment limited the use of federal funds for the study of injuries and death tied to guns available to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health. The amendment restricts research in the sense that funds available for injury prevention cannot be used to advocate gun control.
“Gun violence is a public health emergency, and it should be treated as such,” said Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy in a statement on the consortium. “By working together with like-minded states, we can take strides toward understanding the root causes of violence and determine the most effective prevention strategies.”
Members of the project include a number of functionaries and

Source: Guns.com