Posted April 30, 2018 6:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Among the many sins anti-gunners attribute to their opponents, perhaps the most egregious is the claim that the Dickey Amendment shut down gun research at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. They argue until they’re blue in the face that the law killed any and all federal research on the topic of firearms and gun-related violence.

Pro-gun forces argue the amendment did no such thing. Instead, it simply barred the CDC from using the money for gun control purposes.

The thing is, in a way, both sides are right (emphasis mine).

The group of researchers will be joining forces to improve the quantity of research conducted on gun violence. They aim to build a foundation of research to fix this deficiency, Galea wrote in an email.

“The group was formed to help address the shortage of gun violence research by building a stable base of such work in [the] future,” Galea wrote. “It aims to build more research in the area by making funds available over time.”

This absence of adequate research, Siegel said, is in part due to an amendment in a 1996 bill passed by Congress that stated that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could not use …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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