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

[G_j]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/12/02/hours-before-san-bernardino-mass-shooting-doctors-were-on-capitol-hill-petitioning-congress-to-lift-ban-on-gun-violence-research/?postshare=1101449109387978&tid=ss_fb

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

On Wednesday morning, a group of doctors in white coats arrived on Capitol Hill to deliver a petition to Congress. Signed by more than 2,000 physicians around the country, it pleads with lawmakers to lift a restriction that for nearly two decades has essentially blocked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from conducting research on gun violence.

Joined by a handful of Democratic lawmakers, the doctors spoke about the need to view gun violence as a public health epidemic and research ways to solve it – as the country would with any disease causing the deaths of thousands of Americans each year.

“It is disappointing that we have made little progress over the past 20 years in finding solutions to gun violence," said Nina Agrawal, a New York physician and member of the advocacy group Doctors for America, according to the group's Twitter feed.

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[misterhighwasted]

1. The NRA's been lobbying hard to keep their gun profits alone.

They've spent a lot of money on lobbyists to remain untouched.
Long ago there were calls for limits. Tragedies just were'nt horrific enough to move lawmakers to act on behalf of their citizens.
At some point it can no longer be reversed. The NRA knew this long ago also.

[Thinkingabout]

2. WTH are they thinking. To hell with NRA and their ideas, get some sensible safety measures for a

change.

[virginia mountainman]

3. The voters have spoken..

And they have spoken repeatedly on this issue... We as a party would be wise to listen to them.

[G_j]

4. "voters" don't want research on gun violence?

link?

[libodem]

9. Yep

We do. Some death industry, arms cartels have statistics to deny and don't want people to be informed. True story.

[Octafish]

5. I'm ashamed I didn't know this was going on...

a restriction that for nearly two decades has essentially blocked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from conducting research on gun violence.

Thanks for the heads-up, G_j. This important information was missing from my television screen and daily noosepapers. DU can be something special.

[Wilms]

6. Get with the program, Octafish!

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. To be honest, I only learned it after my husband died.

And I got active in suicide prevention. It's ridiculous.

[G_j]

8. 20 years

of legislated ignorance..

[MadCrow]

10. Don't acknowledge the problem

and it doesn't exist; whether it be the need for gun regulation, universal health care, or action on climate change. Bury your head in the sand until it affects you personally, and then berate the government for not doing something!

[asiliveandbreathe]

11. First - outlaw ak47 and ar15 for civilian use - what the hell are we

waiting for...research gun violence...pishtaw...what a waste of money (and folks..it is all about the money - solutions..nope..)...create a division within the govt at fed and state level - round up all these assault weapons....This whole debate, about research, is like closing the barn door after the horses have been let loose...

disgusting voter base continues to ruin our great country....gun totin' bible thumpin' wackos with incendiary right wing propaganda..BS..

[Initech]

12. I am shocked, shocked I tell you.