Obama Plan Eases Freeze On CDC Gun Violence Research by JoNel Aleccia. NBC News. January 16, 2013.
President Obama has directed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other scientific agencies to research gun violence. In addition he has requested $10 million from Congress to fund it. As a result of political pressure and the resulting lack of funding there has been no CDC gun-focused research since the mid-1990s. Among the research that resulted in pressure from the NRA and others were findings that homes with weapons were not better protected. For example, it was found that there was a five-fold increase in suicide risk in homes with guns. By contrast, traffic-related safety research, which has not been subjected to political pressure, has yielded dramatic results.
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