As a nation ever more concerned with the violence that surrounds us, we ask you to repeal the provision outlawing research on gun control by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Why is this important?
While the heartbreaking school massacre in Connecticut has us all rightly thinking about gun-control laws, our psychologists, sociologists, and physicians should also be studying causes of violence in American society and possible means of prevention. And yet, because of pressure from the gun lobby, the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the CDC has been denied any funding that “may be used to advocate or promote gun control” since 1996.
How can we allow a business lobby to prevent not only legislation on so important a topic but even study and debate on the subject?
