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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (83715)	1/15/2013 12:55:18 AM
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The NRA goes to great lengths to kill research on gun violence. The last thing in the world they want is for you to know the truth about gun violence. And they subvert the government and bend elected officials to their will to keep you from knowing the truth. In place of the truth, they spew mindless propaganda that plays on the weakness and fears of the public, all the while holding their hands over their hearts and pretending to be protectors of freedom -- it is a travesty. <Rivara said, agency-funded research had revealed that residents of homes with guns had a higher likelihood of violent death in the home. [ The History of Human Aggression] However, once those findings came to the attention of the National Rifle Association (NRA), a political firestorm ensued. Congress members who supported the NRA first attempted to remove all funding from the NCIPC. That failed, but Congress did manage to remove $2.6 million from the CDC's overall budget, the exact amount spent on firearm injury research in the past year, Rivara wrote Dec. 21 in a commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association. More chillingly, Congress added language to the budget appropriations bill forbidding any CDC funding that might "advocate or promote gun control." "The net effect is that we don't have any research going on in the public health sector about ways to prevent gun violence," Rivara told LiveScience. In 2011, the wording on budget appropriations was expanded to include funding from all Department of Health and Human Services agencies, including the National Institutes of Health. In other words, Congress let it be known that attempts to get at the root of the more than 31,000 U.S. deaths from firearms each year would be punished, Rivara said.> news.yahoo.com