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

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Source: washingtonpost




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

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By Brady Dennis December 2 at 7:26 PM

(Karen Belier/AFP)

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.

[Gunmen slay 14 in Calif. in deadliest mass shooting since Sandy Hook]

“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...............

Read more: 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/

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Now this is something I think most of us can agree on!


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“As a pediatrician, I am deeply troubled that gun violence is a leading cause of death in children.” - Dr. Nina Agrawal #EndTheBan

[marym625]

1. While it is unfortunate that there's currently so much that divides us

There are some things that the greater majority of us agree upon. This, I hope is one of them.

I've never understood the reasoning behind this ban. I've never understood why, even when we the Democrats, had the executive and legislative branches of government, this didn't change,

Even if you are one of those that has problems with gun control, you would think this funding, these studies and statistics, would be wanted. The obvious answer is the only reason to be against it is fear of what it would prove.

So many broken hearts, ended or changed lives, more and more, daily, because of guns.

While so much work needs to be done, I don't have hope we'll achieve anything until we get money out of politics.