Dems Earmark $50 Million Toward ‘Gun Research’

By Tom Knighton

Democrats have been lamenting the so-called Dickey Amendment a lot lately. That’s the law that prevents federal tax dollars to be spent on research promoting gun control.

The law is fairly simple, and its goal is simple too. It’s about preventing the American taxpayers from funding research that’s meant to advocate for limiting their civil liberties. It’s pretty straightforward.

However, the law has come under fire lately as anti-gun crusaders have claimed the law has a chilling effect on gun violence research as a whole.

Now, Democrats are trying to fight against it by earmarking some $50 million for research into gun violence.

House Democrats on Monday rolled out an initial version of an education and health spending bill for next year that includes $50 million specifically designated for federal gun violence research, laying down another marker on an issue they’ve pursued aggressively this year.

The $189.8 billion bill funds programs in the labor, health, and education departments. It’s the first of 12 individual spending bills for fiscal 2020, which starts Oct. 1, that the House Appropriations Committee plans to consider.

It includes $8.3 billion for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including $25 million to support “firearm injury and mortality prevention …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms