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Gun Control & RKBA

AndyS

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7. We have no studies because in 1996 an amendment was added to the omnibus bill that

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 26, 2023, 10:17 AM

Jan 2023

prevented any gun related study 'for the purpose of gun control'. That was interpreted to mean ANY study of guns and violence. Academia halted all studies into guns for fear of losing all funding for all studies Only in the last few years has that amendment been loosened somwhat.

It still has a very detrimental effect on any scientific look at causes and remedies to gun violence.

It is the Dickey amendment.

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Why number of US mass shootings has risen sharply [View all] nightwing1240 Jan 2023 OP

We're awfully late on harder-to-get. We should question current motivations of the shooters bucolic_frolic Jan 2023 #1

We have no studies because in 1996 an amendment was added to the omnibus bill that AndyS Jan 2023 #7

Increase in mass shootings Jrose Jan 2023 #2

Hard not to see a correlation of those with the shootings nightwing1240 Jan 2023 #3

Words have consequences Jrose Jan 2023 #4

Mass quantities of readily-available guns have consequences. Paladin Feb 2023 #12

The GOP goal is to create hatred, rage, chaos, violence. Irish_Dem Jan 2023 #5

Because a lot of mediocre radically conservative white guys are butt-hurt because other people are Scrivener7 Jan 2023 #6

I heard of a recent study of 160 mass shootings that showed AndyS Jan 2023 #8

Both have a common denominator -- chronic elevation of negative emotions due to exposure ancianita Jan 2023 #10

If, as "they" say, only deranged people kill people, not guns, then ... usonian Jan 2023 #9

How about getting treatment/locking up those that are on the path to murder? yagotme Feb 2023 #11