May 23, 2018
Just in case you wonder why the US has so many gun crimes, you can thank the NRA for trying to suppress any and all research into gun crime. You may note that the amendment does not ban CDC research into deaths from gun crime directly, but it was accompanied by a cut to the CDC budget of exactly as much money as they spent researching gun deaths in the previous year. It was not a subtle message...
When any group spends so much money on lobbying government to suppress research and discussion, you had better believe there is something there worth researching and discussing.
The Tiahrt Amendment doesn’t help either, as it makes it impossible to use certain types of data in research. Oddly, the NRA is quite fond of this one too...