In a defeat for the NRA, Congress is poised to approve the first funding for research into gun violence in more than two decades
Mayor of Dayton, Ohio, Nan Whaley wears a button that reads 'end gun violence', before testifying during the US House Judiciary Committee hearing 'Protecting America from Assault Weapons', on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.In a defeat for the National Rifle Association and a bit of progress for people who prefer not to be shot to death,is poised to approve the first funding for research into gun violence in more than two decades.
On Tuesday, the House passed $25 million in funding for the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health to investigate gun violence as a public health crisis. The measure, tucked into a massive bipartisan spending agreement the Senate is expected to pass before the end of the week, was secured by Rep. Rosa DeLauro nearly seven years to the day after the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, killed 20 first graders and six adults.
“The funding for evidence-based research,” DeLauro said in a statement, “will help us better understand the correlation between domestic violence and gun violence, how Americans can more safely store guns, and how we can intervene to reduce suicide by firearms. This is a major step forward,” she added, “to helping reduce the pain and suffering families endure every day due to the scourge of gun violence.
The appropriation is tiny in the scheme of the $1.4 trillion year-end spending deal. And $25 million in funding is incommensurate to the challenge of addressing one of America’s leading causes of death. In 2017, nearly 40,000 Americans died by gun violence — 60 percent of those by suicide.
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