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The Dickey Amendment didn't ban any studies or doing research, it banned the CDC from advocating gun control policies at a time when the administration was push
by aksss 6y ago
The Dickey Amendment didn't ban any studies or doing research, it banned the CDC from advocating gun control policies at a time when the administration was pushing it to use its authority/reputation to do so. It would be like me saying you can do all the research you want on teenage pregnancy and the like, but we're not funding your department to do political advocacy campaigns for abstinence. Stick to the science.
- wing-_-nuts 6y ago...and yet, where are these publicly funded studies on gun violence since? It's a ban in fact, if not a ban in law.
- HideousKojima 6y agoHere's a CDC-funded study on gun violence from 2013: https://www.nap.edu/read/18319/chapter/1 https://www.nap.edu/read/18319/chapter/1 You've been repeatedly and blatantly lied to by the media and politicians about the CDC being "banned" from researching gun violence. The ban was on the use of public funds to advocate for specific gun laws/policies, not on research into the subject itself.