thatgalpal:

sorrynotsorrybi:

tanoraqui:

returnofismasm:

tanoraqui:

profeminist:

Tweet 1 source | Tweet 2 source

I am genuinely unclear on why a school shooting victim would relevant to the business of the Centers for Disease Control

@tanoraqui There is a law that prevents the CDC from studying gun violence.  It’s the NRA’s fault, like so many things, they keep blocking attempts to get the law repealed.  

Oh! Thank you.

That law is also why it’s so difficult to study domestic violence – because most deaths due to DV are shootings.

can tumblr please do its research for once? the CDC isn’t prevented from studying gun violence, it is extremely limited in doing so because of funding. it’s called the Dickey Amendment.

literally: “It is a provision first inserted as a rider into the 1996 federal government omnibus spending bill which mandated that “none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) may be used to advocate or promote gun control.” In the same spending bill, Congress earmarked $2.6 million from the CDC’s budget, the exact amount that had previously been allocated to the agency for firearms research the previous year, for traumatic brain injury-related research. In 2013, President Barack Obama directed the CDC to research gun violence. The CDC responded by funding a research project in 2013[10] and conducting their own study in 2015.[11] That month, a spokeswoman for the agency, Courtney Lenard, told the Washington Post that “It is possible for us to conduct firearm-related research within the context of our efforts to address youth violence, domestic violence, sexual violence, and suicide. But our resources are very limited.”

after much tug and war,

“On March 21, 2018, Congressional negotiators reached a deal on an Omnibus continuing resolution. The 1.3 trillion dollar spending agreement also includes language that codified Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar interpretation of the Dickey Rider in testimony on February 18, 2018, before the US House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee. While the amendment itself remains, the language in a report accompanying the Omnibus spending bill clarifies that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can, in fact, conduct research into gun violence. It was signed into law by U.S. President Donald J. Trump on March 23, 2018.”

so while it isn’t illegal, and they can do research, they are limited in doing so because the government has stripped them of the resources to do so.