The National Institutes of Health is the federal government's main agency for supporting medical research. Is it barred from researching mass shootings? That's what presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said recently.
May 2 2024KFF Health News The National Institutes of Health is the federal government's main agency for supporting medical research . Is it barred from researching mass shootings? That's what presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said recently.
In 1996, Congress approved appropriations bill language saying that “none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun control.” The language was named for one of its backers, Rep. Jay Dickey .“Any honest research that was not rigged to produce results that helped promote gun control could be funded by CDC,” said Gary Kleck, a Florida State University criminologist.
Although the Dickey Amendment didn't bar gun-related research, federal decision-makers acted as though it did by not pursuing such research.
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