538 researcher's discovery about guns

[shanny]

103. This:

Public policy should always be based on facts, evidence, and data. Ideology and dogma have no place in public policy.

I'm all for it. Let's have the CDC do an exhaustive study and come up with actual facts and real solutions. Oh, wait....ideologues have forbidden it altogether.

The center's moratorium on gun violence research stems from an NRA-backed budget amendment passed in 1996. Obama ordered the agency to relaunch gun studies shortly after the Sandy Hook massacre, but his budget requests in 2014 and 2015—which would have dedicated $10 million to the issue—were refused by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives. The CDC still regards gun violence as so off-limits that it's not even listed under the Table of Contents section in its recently released index of research priorities. Throughout the 47-page report, the word "firearm" is only used four times: three in reference to youth violence and once in reference to suicide prevention.

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/qbxnpm/the-cdc-just-released-a-gun-violence-study-that-doesnt-study-guns-122

And of course there is this:

When a car kills a person in the US, the details all go into a massive government database. It's called the Fatality Analysis Reporting System, and it records the number of deaths, the type of car, weather conditions, speed, seatbelt use, age, sex, seating position, and drug use of every single occupant—over 100 variables in total. Those numbers are the backbone of car safety standards. Since the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration started capturing that data in 1975, car deaths have fallen by 27 percent.

Still, car crashes remain a leading cause of death by injury in the America. In 2013, the most recent year for which data is available, cars killed 33,804 people.

In comparison, firearms killed 33,636 people. Yet no national databases exists for gun deaths.

https://www.wired.com/2015/10/america-still-doesnt-good-data-guns/

Time for responsible gun owners to step up.