Sentences with phrase «gun violence research»

Today is the second day of the college's gun violence research symposium, at which officials and experts are discussing the issues and potential solutions.

Congress still has not lifted the federal ban on gun violence research.

Americans for Responsible Solutions advocates for barring people with domestic abuse convictions from buying firearms, for hardening penalties for illegal gun trafficking, federally funding gun violence research and for expanding and improving the national background check system, in order to cover weapons bought on the internet or at gun shows.

Still, he says the new research center provides «a very stark example» for Congress, which has balked at President Barack Obama's repeated requests for a $ 10 - million investment into gun violence research.

A coalition of six states that includes New York will announce today the creation of a regional gun violence research consortium.

Obama requested $ 10 million for the CDC's gun violence research in his last two budgets.

Despite advances in statistics that helped researchers tease out findings in the latest gun violence research, Donohue said that statistical research will never yield perfect answers.

Kevin McCoy / Wikimedia Commons CC BY - SA 2.0 Removal of a decades - old restriction that has largely halted federal funding for gun violence research by the U.S. Centers...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now have the government's permission to resume gun violence research, in writing: the massive omnibus spending bill that President Donald Trump signed today clarifies that a 22 - year - old ban on using federal funds to advocate or promote gun control doesn't actually ban research.

Alan I. Leshner, chief executive officer of AAAS and executive publisher of Science, sent letters to U.S. President Barack Obama and two congressional representatives commending their efforts to end a long - standing federal freeze on gun violence research.

September 28, 2014 • For the first time in nearly 20 years, federal money is flowing into gun violence research.

The group also wants the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to fund gun violence research and have the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives modernize and digitize records of gun sales.

«In relation to mortality rates, gun violence research was the least - researched cause of death and the second - least funded cause of death after falls,» the study's authors wrote.

Congress also passed important gun violence legislation, including lifting the prohibition on gun violence research and my school safety bill, achievements that never would have happened without the student - led grassroots movement pushing our country forward.

The measures would extend background check times from three days to 10, create a gun violence research institute and block anyone from purchasing a gun who has been convicted of a hate crime.

From evolution to climate change to stem cell research to gun violence research to homosexuality, conservatives are distrustful of science, especially «new» science.

A recent JAMA study comparing spending on leading causes of mortality, such as cancer, malnutrition and hypertension, found that gun violence research funding was only 1.6 percent of what would be expected, given the number of people that die from guns each year.

The president's plan, released 16 January, urges an «end [to] the freeze on gun violence research.»

AAAS is urging Congress to remove funding restrictions on gun violence research that lawmakers have kept in place for two decades.

If the 1996 law's language was vague, Congress made the message clear by cutting the CDC's budget by $ 2.6 million — exactly the same amount the agency had spent the previous year on gun violence research.

Congress also cut CDC's budget by the amount it was spending on gun violence research, without specifying where the cut should be made.

Ludwig is a co-author of a letter signed by more than 100 academics that calls for an end to the ban on gun violence research.

Hours before San Bernardino shooting, doctors urged Congress to lift funding ban on gun violence research

Congress and the executive branch must remove barriers to gun violence research and institute a program of scientific research on gun violence that encompasses all levels of prevention.