A new message from your friends at People For the American Way.

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Gun violence is a public health epidemic, one that is killing an alarming
and increasing number of people every year. Rather than allowing
politicians to continue ignoring the violence - mass shootings, suicide,
domestic violence, accidental deaths, interpersonal conflict, and more -
we've got to figure out the root causes and research ways to prevent the
next tragedy before it happens.

[ [link removed] ]Add your name today and urge the Senate to fund gun violence
research!>>

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) researched gun
violence in the 1980s and 1990s, but the National Rifle Association (NRA)
bullied Congress into prohibiting any activities that "may be used to
advocate or promote gun control." This language, in what's known as the
Dickey Amendment, was an effective ban on gun violence research.

Last year, Congress finally clarified that the CDC and NIH are allowed to
do gun violence research, yet without funding dedicated to this research,
this clarification does little. The House has now allocated $50 million in
the budget for gun safety, firearm injury, and mortality prevention
research.

We must demand the Senate act. The Senate must allow us to research the
root causes, as the first step to ending this epidemic.

[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition to demand the Senate include gun safety research in
the budget>>

Thanks,

-- Zach, PFAW


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