Posted on 04/06/2017 8:17:29 AM PDT by PROCON
“No one should be afraid of more non-partisan, scientific research into this vital issue – not Republicans, not the NRA and not President Trump,” said Sen. Markey. (Photo: Markey.Senate)
A group of 30 Senate and House Dems debuted a proposal on Tuesday to fund research at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on firearms safety and gun violence prevention.
Backed by U.S. Sen. Edward Markey D-Mass., and U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-NY, along with a host of other Democrat and Independent lawmakers, the bill, S.834, would provide $10 million per year to CDC for a term of at least six years beginning in 2018.
“Gun violence is ending lives and shattering families in Massachusetts and across our country,” said Markey. “Now more than ever we must study the causes of gun violence and what can be done to prevent it. No one should be afraid of more non-partisan, scientific research into this vital issue – not Republicans, not the NRA and not President Trump.”
The measure introduced this week would set aside $10 million in funding each year for FY2018-2023 to be added to the CDC’s budget, earmarked for research into guns. The money, if approved, would be the largest funding for federal gun use research since a 1996 amendment by then-Rep. Jay Dickey, R-Ark., precluded CDC’s funds from being spent on actions intended to restrict or control the purchase or use of firearms. Dickey, now 77 and long out of office, has since expressed regrets over leading the charge to block funding.
Markey and Maloney supported similar measures in 2014 and 2015 that failed to make it out of committee.
The bill is supported by a number of health care lobby groups and gun control organizations including the Newtown Action Alliance, Everytown, Moms Demand Action, the Brady Campaign, Americans for Responsible Solutions and the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence.
“Gun violence kills more than 90 Americans and injures hundreds more each day, and yet it remains one of the most underfunded areas of public health research,” said Sarah Tofe, research director for Everytown in a statement emailed to Guns.com. “The legislation introduced today would appropriate necessary and long overdue funds to the CDC to reclaim their leadership when it comes to gun violence prevention research – a role that has been decimated for more than two decades thanks to a relentless campaign by gun lobby-backed legislators.”
Gun rights groups contend that the nation’s murder rate and fatal gun accidents have fallen dramatically in recent decades as gun sales have skyrocketed while pointing out the restrictions placed on CDC by Congress are not a blanket ban on firearms research.
Wasn't this tried a few years back?
CDC Study Ordered by Obama Contradicts White House Anti-gun Narrative
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Cain killed Able. Study that, you Demorons.
OMG $60,000,000!! For what? To line some pockets, come out with some results about gun violence, which would be a totally contrived meme to satisfy liberal agenda.
I vote to put the $60,000,000 into building the wall.
Democrats request $60 million for CDC to study gun violence as health crisis that they can turn around and distribute to their cronies or otherwise spend as they wish.
There. Fixed it.
Guns are not a disease.
The CDC needs to stick to its mission, biological diseases.
Sorry, but guns are not a disease. Gun violence studies belong in law enforcement.
Criminal use of firearms is not a health issue. it is a crime issue. Giving the money to CDC is simply a way to manufacture “evidence” in support of future gun control.
We need a hundred million for OUR BACKERS to study Unicorn mating migration patterns.
100% Pure, Industrial Strength B.S.
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Again?
Yup. Baloney and Sharkey up to the same garbage.
In the DIMs mind the cause of violence is always the gun and never the wielder. A firearm is a tool, you put it on a table and never touch it and it will stay there forever. To DIMs a gun is a malevolent entity that corrupts anyone who touches it, as if a gun has some kind of ability to change a person’s personality and drive them to violence. Another waste of money on a ‘backdoor gun grab’.
Ed
Isn’t it yet obvious why the Subversive-crats want you disarmed and undefended?
Reject the premise. “Gun violence” is not a health issue - it is a crime issue.
John Lott has already done all the research that’s necessary.
It took them a while, but the article finally slips in the truth.
“OMG $60,000,000!! For what?”
They don’t need money to make up bullsh1t. They can and will do this at no cost.
Take the money and study the Crips and the Bloods and MS13 a TERRORIST organizations and WIPE THEM OUT!!
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