After A Two Decade Ban, Congress Finally Says The Federal Government Can Study Gun Violence

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https://www.buzzfeed.com/paulmcleod/congress-says-the-federal-government-can-study-gun-violence

 

Ambitious gun control plans were left out of Congress’s final must-pass bill before the fall, but the legislation does include two potentially significant changes.

 

Democrats and Republicans in Congress have agreed on legislation that would open the doors to the federal government studying the effects gun violence, softening decades of legal language that encouraged the Centers for Disease Control to leave the issue alone.

A $1.3 trillion kitchen sink spending bill that must pass by Friday to avoid another government shutdown will not change gun control laws, but does contain two key measures to research gun violence and beef up background checks.

The momentum to significantly alter gun control laws in the wake of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting last month have faded in Congress in recent weeks, but the two provisions made it into the final, bipartisan bill released Wednesday night.

The spending bill contains a modest measure to improve reporting to the national background check registry. That was expected in recent days, but on top of it the committee reportcontains language that will allow the Centers for Disease Control the authority to research gun violence.

Posted on March 21, 2018, at 7:22 p.m.

[bcking 3,157]

I'm sure people can guess here that I support this. 

 

I sure do love data  Hopefully this means there will be even more papers for me to critique. 

Edited March 22, 2018 by bcking