Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Honest question. If gun rights supporters are idiots... [View all]My Good Babushka
(2,710 posts)We can only speculate on what doctors would think the best course of action would be to reduce gun deaths because of the ban on research. You need to have scientific research on which to base public health policy.
"This ban, supported by the National Rifle Association (NRA), has effectively silenced researchers at both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) for conducting any comprehensive studies on what causes violence and what can be done to prevent it since 1996. As expected, its left public health experts and policymakers with little to lean on as they attempt to craft new legislation to help quell the fatal trend."
Does the gun lobby support ending the Dickey Amendment, then, as many doctors do?
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/12/02/3727406/doctors-gun-violence-research/