We must study (gun) violence to understand it

Gun-loons insist gun control is impossible and pointless. The bad guys are the problem, they say. Yet the bloody industry tool, the NRA, fights every effort to study this violence. They don’t want the truth to be known because they fear it will limit the profitability of their bloody industry. We must study violence to understand it — including violence involving guns. Push the NRA aside.

WebMD News from HealthDay
By Robert Preidt
HealthDay Reporter

TUESDAY, June 14, 2016 (HealthDay News) — On the heels of yet another senseless gun massacre in the United States, the nation’s leading physicians’ organization is urging more research into gun violence.

Specifically, the American Medical Association (AMA) said Tuesday that a long-standing ban on federal government research into gun violence must be lifted to better understand and tackle the problem.

The AMA is now pledging to lobby Congress to overturn 20-year-old legislation that has prohibited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from researching the issue.

“Even as America faces a crisis unrivaled in any other developed country, the Congress prohibits the CDC from conducting the very research that would help us understand the problems associated with gun violence,” AMA President Dr. Steven Stack said in a news release from the group.

Such research would also help “determine how to reduce the high rate of firearm-related deaths and injuries,” he said.

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