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Within the last week, four people, including a 9-year-old boy, were gunned down at a business complex in Orange, Calif. This was the third mass shooting in the United States in a span of several weeks. These killings come as the nation was mourning the killing of 18 others in mass shootings in Colorado and Georgia. Eight people, including six women of Asian descent, were killed in three Atlanta-area spas. A week later, 10 people died when a gunman opened fire at a Boulder, Colo., grocery store. In the wake of the violence, politicians provided their, all too familiar, “stop the needless ...

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...

Decades? >> could you repeat that? >> why hasn't the cdc studied this in decades? what's stopped them? >> yes. 20 some years ago, cdc was funding research into this area. we had a program funded by cdc at the time. led by congressman named jay dickey. congress took from cdc the money that it was using to fund work on firearm violence, gave the money back to cdc, earmarked for another purpose, and inserted into cdc's budget language, and it is now part of the budget language for all of the department of health and human services, that federal funds could not be used to advocate or promote gun c...

Of gun control, not the agenda of gun violence. what i regret is we didn't go forward and say we do need research, but we need research with integrity. what's your reaction to that? >> well, i'm so happy representative dickey decided that while he was the author of this amendment 20 years ago, it was a bad idea and we do need to research gun violence, because over 32,000 people a year are dying in this country because of gun violence as doctors, nurses, we see this every day in our hospitals. it's time for us to do something. >> so -- a lot of people watching would say, what can the cdc do? ho...

Just a few hours before news broke of the horrific mass shooting in san bernardino, a group of doctors filed into the u.s. capitol on a mission to get lawmakers to lift a decades-old ban that bans funding on gun violence research at the cdc. they presented a petition signed by more than 2,000 physicians from around the country, as well as an argument insisting gun violence is a public health epidemic, it needs to be studied just like any other disease. one of those doctors is with me now, executive doctors of doctors with america. thank you for being with me. it was interesting to see all of y...