For more than 20 years, the federal government did not support gun studies.
Using research and statistics, experts examine America's history with guns, the real-life impacts of gun violence and what can be done going forward to mitigate the problem.Rethinking Gun Violence
Despite being one of the leading causes of death, one thing that that's difficult to know is the scope of the problem, fueled in part by a more than a two-decade-long prohibition -- recently changed -- on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention using federal funds to"advocate or promote gun control.""At that point in time in 1983, there were two types of frequent injury deaths. One was motor vehicle crashes, and the other was gun violence," Dr.
"We started looking at, what's the problem," Rosenberg told ABC News. The agency studied the number of people dying from gun violence, the weapons used and the causes behind it.Dr. Garen Wintemute, head of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis, says the program received two grants at the time to conduct much-needed research on firearms.
"These results weren't pleasing to the NRA. And so they stepped up their attack on our research program," Rosenberg told ABC News. "This Dickey Amendment had a real chilling effect," Rosenberg told ABC News."It was enough to discourage individual researchers and, at the same time, Congress took away the money we were using for the research we were doing."
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