"Actually, guns do kill people": Right-to-carry laws increase the rate of violent crime.

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8. Not exactly

The Dickey Amendment is a provision first inserted as a rider into the 1996 United States federal government omnibus spending bill which mandated that "none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) may be used to advocate or promote gun control." In the same spending bill, Congress earmarked $2.6 million from the CDC's budget, the exact amount that had previously been allocated to the agency for firearms research the previous year, for traumatic brain injury-related research.

In essence, congress directed that "advocacy" is not "study". Since then, the there have been to blocks, either of which could enable further research. One is that congress has failed to designate any CDC funding specifically for gun violence research and no one in the CDC's leadership has been unwilling to appropriate money from their general operating budget to fund that research.

The solutions are-
A: Republicans are now outnumbered in the House. Take back the Senate next year. Pass funding specifically for gun violence research by CDC.
B: Push 45 out and elect someone who will install CDC leadership with enough courage do go off the reservation and make a start by establishing a staffing committee for this research aimed at preventing anything that even smells like bias.

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/01/16/presidential-memorandum-engaging-public-health-research-causes-and-preve
Therefore, by the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby direct the following:
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Section 1. Research. The Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary), through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other scientific agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services, shall conduct or sponsor research into the causes of gun violence and the ways to prevent it. The Secretary shall begin by identifying the most pressing research questions with the greatest potential public health impact, and by assessing existing public health interventions being implemented across the Nation to prevent gun violence.
Sec. 2. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this memorandum shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This memorandum shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
Sec. 3. Publication. You are hereby authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.

Despite this direction:

Though President Obama formally directed the CDC to "the causes of gun violence and the ways to prevent it" shortly after the Newtown mass-murder in 2012, the chilling effect had already taken hold, and the CDC has consistently declined to allocate money to study the issue.
In fact, to this day, CDC policy states the agency "interprets" the language as a prohibition on using CDC funds to research gun issues that would be used in legislative arguments "intended to restrict or control the purchase or use of firearms." https://abcnews.go.com/US/federal-government-study-gun-violence/story?id=50300379

And some other news:

https://www.nbcnews.com/healthmain/obamas-unlocking-federal-funding-ban-gun-research-yields-little-upshot-2D11733547
In ending the federal-funding blockade in January, the White House issued an accompanying statement in which the president directed the "CDC and other research agencies to conduct research into the causes and prevention of gun violence."