violence as a public health epidemic
Daniel Webster, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, said he and his team of researchers have long relied on meager public funding and private grants that limit the scope of their research by forcing them to draw correlations between available data sets"Very, very rarely are we able to say, 'Are the people ...
Former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, co-founder of the eponymous gun violence prevention organization,that the bill demonstrates a"change" in the country's approach to gun violence. If approved, the bill would be the first to include funding explicitly for gun safety research since 1996. That year, Congress – under pressure from the NRA – approved the Dickey Amendment, which stated that the CDC could not"advocate or promote gun control." Congress also slashed CDC funding by $2.6 million, the same amount that the center had spent on firearm violence research the previous year.
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