Sentences with phrase «on gun violence research»

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Not exact matches

The CDC, says Wintemute, has incorrectly «interpreted that as a mandate not to do research» on the public health dangers of guns and the epidemiology of gun violence.

Based on the research, the presence of more guns typically translates to much more general gun violence, while justified uses of a gun for self - defense are few and far between.

The bill states that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can do research on gun violence, but not advocacy, an idea Democrats pushed.

The research supports gun control: A 2016 review of 130 studies in 10 countries, published in Epidemiologic Reviews, found that new legal restrictions on owning and purchasing guns tended to be followed by a drop in gun violence — a strong indicator that restricting access to guns can save lives.

Part of the package also includes a report clarifying that the CDC can conduct research on gun violence, reversing a 22 - year - old prohibition.

It also provides money to improve school security, strengthens the system of background checks on gun buyers, and provides some funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct research on gun violence.

«The gun industry and its allies often attempt to block research and data - gathering on gun violence, but analysis like this can both demonstrate the life - saving effectiveness of sensible gun laws, and also help us prevent gun crimes and solve them when they occur.

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.

The coalition will also seek to crack down on guns that are transported across state borders, launching a Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium to stud the issue and create policy proposals.

Not only will this groundbreaking partnership take new steps to prevent illegal guns from crossing state lines, but by forming the nation's first Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium, we will be able to better inform policymakers nationwide on how to keep their communities safe.»

Reporting by a various agencies on Thursday, indicates Biden is looking at a mixture of «universal» background checks, additional research on the causes of gun violence and a similar ban on high capacity magazines as proposed for New York.

Gianaris» bill comes on the heels of an announcement by Gov. Cuomo that New York, five other states, and Puerto Rico are working together to research and analyze gun violence and improve and share data collection.

Another section of the resolution links New York's strict gun laws to the state's low rates of gun crime, while criticizing some state senators who have voted against «common sense» gun laws like a ban on bump stocks, improved background checks and state funding for research on gun violence.

Right now, our broken Congress does not provide any funding for the Center for Disease Control to do research on gun violence.

House Democrats, who've sought to draw attention to their push for gun control legislation in the wake of recent mass shootings, emphasized a new demand during the day as they announced their opposition to any bill that doesn't undo a longstanding provision that has been interpreted to block the Centers for Disease Control from conducting research on gun violence.

AAAS has reiterated its support for lifting existing restrictions on federally funded research of gun violence.

The agreement also contains language enabling agencies to move forward with research on the causes of gun violence.

Its portfolio includes giving those on its 230,000 - strong mailing list a chance to endorse online petitions to legislators on timely topics (last week's letter urged Congress to support research on gun violence), a Vote for Science campaign that highlights a different issue each month, and an upcoming national summit for local activists.

Funding for research on gun violence is 1.6 percent of what would be expected, given the number of gun deaths.

Funding and publication of research on gun violence and other leading causes of death.

This bill would «amend appropriations language that serves to discourage federal research on gun violence,» and underscores the importance of such work, Leshner wrote.

Research on any kind of gun violence gets little federal funding (SN Online: 3/9/18; SN: 5/14/16, p. 16).

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.»

Former Representative Jay Dickey (R — AR), who championed the 1996 amendment, has publicly reversed his position and now lobbies for more research on gun violence.

«I write to applaud you for supporting research as part of your Administration's initiatives on reducing gun violence,» Leshner wrote in his 17 January letter to Obama.

«Recent research on causes of gun violence analyzed.»

Instead, an official report that accompanies the legislation notes that while it includes language to prohibit the CDC and other agencies from funding activities to advocate or promote gun control, «the Secretary of Health and Human Services has stated the CDC has the authority to conduct research on the causes of gun violence».

«One of our most important findings is the lack of high - quality research on this topic, especially in relation to the major health impact gun violence has had in this country,» says co - author Eric Fleegler, MD, MPH, also of Boston Children's Division of Emergency Medicine and Harvard Medical School.

Although the CDC largely withdrew from funding research on gun violence more than 20 years ago (under intense congressional pressure), there are active research programs in medicine, public health, law, and the social sciences under way in universities and think tanks.

Given this heavy burden, it is greatly concerning that many aspects of the body of research on gun violence have been deemed inadequate and inconclusive by expert panels of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (4 — 6).

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

Your editorial rightly decried the National Rifle Association's «strangling of research» on US gun violence as «utterly reprehensible» (26 January,...

The AAAS has joined 140 medical, public health, scientific, and academic organizations in urging Congress to drop legislative language that has restricted research on gun violence through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

But although President Barack Obama ordered the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to recommence gun research in the wake of last December's massacre of 20 schoolchildren and 6 adults in Newtown, Connecticut, federal funding for research on gun violence remains scarce so far.

On the heels of the Sandy Hook murders, President Barack Obama in 2013 ordered the CDC and other health research agencies to resume firearms violence research, on the grounds that the Dickey amendment prohibits advocacy for gun control but not research on gun violencOn the heels of the Sandy Hook murders, President Barack Obama in 2013 ordered the CDC and other health research agencies to resume firearms violence research, on the grounds that the Dickey amendment prohibits advocacy for gun control but not research on gun violencon the grounds that the Dickey amendment prohibits advocacy for gun control but not research on gun violencon gun violence.

He stuck to the facts but also managed to make clear how he feels about the funding prohibition, which had effectively killed off most research on gun violence.

Instead he advocates three steps informed by research: requiring background checks for all U.S. gun sales, forbidding alcohol abusers and those convicted of violent misdemeanors from buying guns, and rewriting current federal restrictions on gun ownership to better capture people who are mentally ill and at risk of violence to themselves or others.

The American Academy of Pediatrics, an organization of 66,000 pediatricians, has repeatedly advocated for stricter gun laws, violence prevention programs, research for gun violence prevention and public health surveillance, physician counseling to patients on the health hazards of firearms and mental health access to address exposure to violence.

About a year later, President Obama tried to ease the choke hold: He ordered the CDC to research the causes and prevention of gun violence, and called on Congress to provide $ 10 million in funding.

Meanwhile, research on gun violence and gun control trudges forward: Researchers can sometimes convince law enforcement agencies to share data on guns linked to crimes, and grants can come from private foundations.

The White House claims today that people misread that message:» [S] ome members of Congress have claimed this prohibition also bans the CDC from conducting any research on the causes of gun violence,» says a White House briefing document.

«Right now the research community is hampered in its ability to inform policymakers about the expected benefits and costs of different policy approaches because of politically ‑ motivated limits on data access, and substantial federal under ‑ funding of research on gun violence.»

Research on U.S. gun violence needs to start with better data on how many firearms are in the country, a new report says.