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world, it is wednesday, june 8th. cnn has learned the most prominent republican in the senate supports raising the minimum age to buy a semi-automatic weapon like an ar-15 from 18 to 216789 mitch mcconnell has said that in private we are told, but he won't say it in public, and it is not likely to be part of any agreement on gun safety as talks heat up between democrats and republicans. republican senator cynthia lummis of wyoming said two weeks ago that she doubted that any plan to curb violence would be welcome in her pro-gun state. now she's signaling an openness to finding legi...

Something known as the dicky amendment passed in 1996, 25, 26 years ald and basically that amendment made it really hard to collect this sort of data if they said that that data was going to be used in any way to advocate for gun control or gun legislation. that was a broad definition. it made it pa hard to collect this data. if you go to the cdc dashboard you will see data for covid and monkeypox, but a dashboard for gun violence giving exact numbers of gun deaths it's still hard to do. there's often independent organizations collecting this data by looking at media reports, local reports and...

Dems Seek $300 Million in Taxpayer Dollars for CDC Gun Research Democrats this week introduced bicameral bills to Congress that aim to give the Centers for Disease Control big bucks to support research into guns.  The Gun Violence Prevention Research Act of 2021 would appropriate $50 million to the CDC each fiscal year from 2022 through 2027, "for the purpose of conducting or supporting research on firearms safety or gun violence prevention." The legislation was introduced jointly by Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., and Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., who were not coy about what laws the researc...

Up with us. >> i wonder what your reaction is to the house today passing the stop school violence act, authorizing money to help train students, teachers, administrators to identify and report warning signs of violence. the legislation doesn't tackle anything with gun control. >> i'm not surprised at all. you know why? because these politicians are still owned by the nra. so is florida. we've seen in florida we can pass some form of legislation, and seeing that pass gives me hope that better gun laws can be passed in our country. but it's certainly a small step in a much bigger movement. we ne...