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In reply to the discussion: Gun advocates don't just oppose gun control and discussions of gun control [View all]countryjake
(8,554 posts)32. They've also been vehemently lobbying to suppress any government research
on gun violence, but will then quickly throw the lack of that research into any and every discussion, demanding "statistics", "where's the peer-reviewed studies?", knowing damn well that the NRA has blocked such research every single time it's suggested by our lawmakers.
How the NRA wields its influence
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/09/us/nra-gun-research/index.html?iref=obinsite
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Since the 1990s, the powerful pro-gun NRA has targeted the heart of what most legislation is based on: studies about the effects of gun violence.
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The NRA says it is simply ensuring that taxpayer money isn't being used to promote a political agenda.
"If gun control groups ... (and) individuals want to further their research, we're not saying they shouldn't be able to do it," NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam told CNN. "We're just saying they shouldn't be using public funds to do it."
But public health experts say it's all part of an attempt by the NRA-led pro-gun lobby to hamstring lawmakers.
"If a bunch of people do research and generate solid evidence that suggests firearms policy should be reformed and either firearms or people who used them should be regulated in new ways, (if I'm a gun-rights advocate,) I'm not going to like that," said Dr. Garen Wintemute, head of the violence prevention research program at the University of California at Davis.
"So, I'll simply prevent the evidence from being collected in the first place. It's a brilliant strategy, and (the gun lobby) succeeded."
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/09/us/nra-gun-research/index.html?iref=obinsite
~snip~
Since the 1990s, the powerful pro-gun NRA has targeted the heart of what most legislation is based on: studies about the effects of gun violence.
~snip~
The NRA says it is simply ensuring that taxpayer money isn't being used to promote a political agenda.
"If gun control groups ... (and) individuals want to further their research, we're not saying they shouldn't be able to do it," NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam told CNN. "We're just saying they shouldn't be using public funds to do it."
But public health experts say it's all part of an attempt by the NRA-led pro-gun lobby to hamstring lawmakers.
"If a bunch of people do research and generate solid evidence that suggests firearms policy should be reformed and either firearms or people who used them should be regulated in new ways, (if I'm a gun-rights advocate,) I'm not going to like that," said Dr. Garen Wintemute, head of the violence prevention research program at the University of California at Davis.
"So, I'll simply prevent the evidence from being collected in the first place. It's a brilliant strategy, and (the gun lobby) succeeded."
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Gun advocates don't just oppose gun control and discussions of gun control [View all]
CreekDog
Jun 2015
OP
Hoyt. I heard a lot of "______ lover" when I was young. Use a different smear. nt
Eleanors38
Jun 2015
#65
Still applicable today, especially for people who have a gun reference in their user name.
Hoyt
Jun 2015
#68
NRA is anti-liberal and the organization has been particularly disgusting about Obama
Johonny
Jun 2015
#2
The only people I know who won't allow a discussion on guns is Gun Control Reform Activism group.
Travis_0004
Jun 2015
#8
Um, GCRA is the Johnny-come-lately (and a decidedly less active group, at that)
friendly_iconoclast
Jun 2015
#78
Right - because gun manufacturers really give a shit about what an obscure web site thinks
hack89
Jun 2015
#12
Well, it's the same as "climate deniers" swarming out of the woodwork after each weather disaster
villager
Jun 2015
#27
well, that is a global catastrophe but this is a personal tragedy and I really feel
CTyankee
Jun 2015
#28
stop it. stop it right now. Decency commands us to mourn the dead and comfort the
CTyankee
Jun 2015
#31
I'm pretty upset right now...yeah, I get that...you nailed it "with blood still wet on
CTyankee
Jun 2015
#37
I couldn't believe they were doing the jr. high school "gunz is great!" snark routine *last night*
villager
Jun 2015
#39
I had a family member killed in gun violence so I know what happens to families in
CTyankee
Jun 2015
#41
9 African Americans were killed by a white supremecist and you want us to be silent?
CreekDog
Jun 2015
#53
I've only been responding to posts about this issue. I started none and wouldn't.
CTyankee
Jun 2015
#46