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  • Source: The Hill
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[Funding research is essential to begin addressing gun violence] With the 2020 presidential race heating up, candidates are condemning gun violence as a “national epidemic” and “public health emergency.” This should come as no surprise; U.S. gun deaths are at a 20-year high and showing no signs of abating. What’s needed is a critical reform rarely discussed on the campaign trail: finally removing the 23-year ban on funding research on gun violence that’s blocking the information we need to save thousands of lives.

We have been operating in the dark, thanks to strict barriers to funding credible research on gun violence. By one estimate, only 30 researchers in the entire country are dedicated to gun policy, and they often are severely limited in their ability to collect and distribute data. The 1996 congressional provision, known as the Dickey Amendment, prohibits the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from funding research that could be perceived as supporting or advocating for gun control.

The Dickey Amendment had a tangible, chilling effect on public health researchers. After its passage, the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control had its budget cut by $2.5 billion and the center’s director was fired. Afraid of losing funding, the CDC drastically reduced its research and, between 1998 and 2012, CDC publications on the topic fell by 64 percent.
Source: The Hill
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