Congress reaches deal to fund gun violence research for first time in decades

[Gothmog]

Source: The Hill

Federal agencies will receive $25 million from Congress to study gun violence in a government spending deal reached by House and Senate negotiators — a major win for Democrats who have long pushed for dedicated funding to research the issue, a source told The Hill.

"Democrats have broken the ban on funding for the first time in decades," the source said.

The deal includes $12.5 million each for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and National Institutes of Health to study gun violence and ways to prevent it.

It’s the first time in more than 20 years that Congress has appropriated money for gun violence research.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/474740-25m-set-aside-for-gun-violence-research-in-spending-agreement-in-win-for

[Gothmog]

1. Democrats just broke the ban on gun violence research funding for the first time in 20 years

Link to tweet

[MadLinguist]

2. Hallelujia!!

It's gonna take a hellevah lot of tugging to pull the data out of police records, precinct by precinct, but it needs to be done, and this law will help compel it.
There needs to be an indicator for deaths resulting from police gunfire in the datasets. Long overdue.

[Turbineguy]

3. Trump could have gotten some mileage out of that

and said, ".... and the NRA is gonna pay for it!"

[Scarsdale]

4. $25 million?

Compare THAT with the grant Ivanka got for herself, to promote women's issues worldwide,. She got $100 million! Who is monitoring THAT money, I wonder, or if there is any left? Please don't get too excited, this is NOTHING.

[riversedge]

5. "Democrats have broken the ban on funding for the first time in decades," the source said.