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by BareNakedCoder
1488 days ago
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The Dickey Amendment[0] frightened the CDC from doing just that. Lobbied for by the NRA and added to a spending bill by a Republican congressman. "Although the Dickey Amendment did not explicitly ban it, for about two decades the CDC avoided all research on gun violence for fear it would be financially penalized." The CDC had budgeted $2.6M to study the problem. This was stopped and, in addition (as "punishment" perhaps?), exactly $2.6M was diverted to something else. Willful ignorance. What can you do? [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickey_Amendment |
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