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For injury prevention and control at the cdc may be used to advocate or promote gun control, end quote. so that's what some say is leading to some of the hesitancy around funding gun violence prevention research. >> so what is expected? what do we know? what is expected to happen from this point on? >> so, that's still up in the air. but i think it's an interesting debate to watch, especially because if lawmakers do decide to pointedly direct funding towards gun violence prevention research, that would be making a huge statement. and that would be the first time, since the dickey amendment was...

Amendment, they kind of clarified it's okay for agencies to look into gun violence prevention research. so that was made clear. the only thing is, since those discussions, not much has happened. and one argument that lawmakers and medical professionals who are really pushing for this have made, out of the top 30 leading causes of death, gun violence is the least researched and the second to least funded when it comes to research. so those are the arguments. >> do we have a gauge for what the trump administration has or will do? >> that's still up in the air. one thing that also playing a role ...

Our federal government to fund research through the normal research institute. so we decided to step up and announced last week that we were making a million commitment from our foundation, asking others to join us to bring together a total of fund of $50 million to fund research on this public health crisis that has really rocked our country. >> part of the need for this is because the dollars are lacking because congress can't do anything about this. is that what i understand? because of current laws, that have taken place and have pulled some of the resources from the cdc? >> yeah, if we go...

Unfortunately instead of addressing this problem and protecting our kids, you got many faining outrage, predictable comments by all the lawmakers. they want a big government bureaucratic response that would also step on your rights to keep and bear arms. >> there is no other issue out there in the american public today like background checks. 97% of americans want universal background checks. >> so just doing something on this background checks issue and using that as a base and then i would like to add some of these other things we have talked about i think would make a major difference. >> i...

N nonpartisan research around guns? why would they lose their funding? >> this came as a result of the dickey amendment and the discussions surrounding it that took place in the late '90s in the appropriations bill that congress was putting forward. it would provide the funding for cdc. also, one of the changes that congress made in funding for the injury center at the cdc, where they took the $2.6 million that was going toward gun research and put it into traumatic brain injury research. basically, it said, you know, you can't use this money for gun research. you have to use it for something ...