Sentences with phrase «into gun violence research»

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.

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If America wants to confront its gun violence problem, then, the research suggests it should look to reducing the number of guns in circulation — not putting more armed people into schools.

In response to a series of school shootings across the country, the Kingston Common Council may seek federal and state action for more stringent gun control, including a freer hand for research into firearm violence.

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> In response to a series of school shootings across the country, the Common Council may seek federal and state action for more stringent gun control, including a freer hand for research into firearm violence.

Compared with other leading causes of death, research into gun violence is among the least funded, an analysis of U.S. mortality data and federal funding from 2004 to 2015 reveals.

Maloney's announcement about the bill, co-sponsored by an array of congressional representatives, said it would «release federal agencies from the restrictions placed on them in 1996 that have prohibited these agencies from conducting high - quality, peer - reviewed research into gun violence prevention.»

Despite these numbers, the last extensive analysis of research into the origins of gun violence, conducted in 2004, was inconclusive.

Democrats failed in their attempt to lift a de facto ban on research into gun violence by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The US government has relaunched research into the causes of firearm violence, funding for which was cut in 1996 after pressure from the gun lobby.

The president issued a memorandum directing the CDC and other public - health agencies to conduct or sponsor research into the causes of gun violence and the ways to prevent it, doing an end - run around congressional moves for several years to muzzle such efforts

[C] onduct or sponsor research into the causes of gun violence and the ways to prevent it.The Secretary shall begin by identifying the most pressing research questions with the greatest potential public health impact, and by assessing existing public health interventions being implemented across the nation to prevent gun violence.

This is why President Obama's clear instruction to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to initiate research into reducing gun violence is important and necessary (see «Obama to scientists: Tell us how to calm gun violence «-RRB-.

In the 1990s, it even managed to largely shut down US government research into gun violence as a public - health problem — an unbelievable situation that still stands today.

January 18, 2016 Comer Children's doctor, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin call for federal research funding into gun violence A University of Chicago Medicine physician Catherine Humikowski joined U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D - Ill., at a press conference Jan. 14 as he continued to push for federal funding for research into the causes and implications of gun violence.

The Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary), through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other scientific agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services, shall conduct or sponsor research into the causes of gun violence and the ways to prevent it.

Mast also said he supports providing «behavior detection training» to anyone seeking a federal firearms license, making more resources available to schools to improve security measures, holding the «FBI and state agencies accountable for their failures to identify a threat like Nikolas Cruz» and «conducting further research into the nexus of gun violence, violence in mass media and mental illness.»

Start with the repeal of the so - called «Dickey Amendment,» 1996 legislation that has blocked federal research into gun violence.

Two decades of restrictions on public health research into gun violence has left us willfully ignorant about the full scope of this problem and the most effective interventions to prevent it.