Not exact matches
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.»
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.
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.
«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.»
CDC's funding of
research on
gun violence peaked at
about $ 2.6 million in 1996.
Avoid writing argumentative essay
about such old topics as gay rights for adoption, glass ceiling, smoking in public places,
gun control,
violence on television, internet pornography, stem cell
research, cloning, freedom of speech, death penalty, etc..
Let's not forget
about guns either,
gun violence is so pervasive, so deadly an issue in America that it should be treated and
researched as a contagious disease, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Gun Violence seeks to secure freedom from gun violence through research, strategic engagement and effective policy a
Violence seeks to secure freedom from
gun violence through research, strategic engagement and effective policy a
violence through
research, strategic engagement and effective policy advocacy.
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.