Pediatrician Dr. Niran Al-Agba Discusses Gun Violence (Via In Part Her Columbine Experience) (April 12th)
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Listen Now Including the February 14th shooting at Marjory Stoneman HS in Parkland Florida that killed seventeen students and teachers, there have now been over 130 shootings in elementary, middle and high schools in 43 states since 2000 and another 58 shootings in US colleges and universities. Gun violence in this country is in a word, obscene. It is, for example, 96 times higher than in Japan and 55 times higher in the UK. It is largely explained by gun prevalence. The US accounts for approximately five percent of the worldwide population, however, Americans own 42 percent of the world's guns. What also explains gun violence is a federal policy that has persisted since 1996, the so called Dickey amendment, that prohibited federal funding to conduct gun violence research. (Since 1996 there have been approximately 600,000 gunshot victims.) The recently passed omnibus spending bill (that funds the federal government through this fiscal year) included accompanying report language stating the Dickey Amendment does not prevent federal agencies, moreover the CDC, from conducting gun violence research. However, the spending bill included no money to conduct gun violence research.
Pediatrician Dr. Niran Al-Agba Discusses Gun Violence (Via In Part Her Columbine Experience) (April 12th)
Pediatrician Dr. Niran Al-Agba Discusses Gun…
Pediatrician Dr. Niran Al-Agba Discusses Gun Violence (Via In Part Her Columbine Experience) (April 12th)
Listen Now Including the February 14th shooting at Marjory Stoneman HS in Parkland Florida that killed seventeen students and teachers, there have now been over 130 shootings in elementary, middle and high schools in 43 states since 2000 and another 58 shootings in US colleges and universities. Gun violence in this country is in a word, obscene. It is, for example, 96 times higher than in Japan and 55 times higher in the UK. It is largely explained by gun prevalence. The US accounts for approximately five percent of the worldwide population, however, Americans own 42 percent of the world's guns. What also explains gun violence is a federal policy that has persisted since 1996, the so called Dickey amendment, that prohibited federal funding to conduct gun violence research. (Since 1996 there have been approximately 600,000 gunshot victims.) The recently passed omnibus spending bill (that funds the federal government through this fiscal year) included accompanying report language stating the Dickey Amendment does not prevent federal agencies, moreover the CDC, from conducting gun violence research. However, the spending bill included no money to conduct gun violence research.