UPDATE: Congressional Candidate, Bryon Sort has called for Congress to lift the ban on gun violence research, and “to start supporting a data-driven and scientific approach to a solution.”
No word yet from Coons or Carney.
462 innocent people have been killed this year in mass shootings. How many more lives must be cut short before we come together to find real solutions to gun violence in our country?
If you are like me, you wonder what we should be doing about he epidemic of gun violence in this country. Everything seems so pointless and impossible, but I’ve found something that is doable, and might help us (eventually) get something done. First read this, and then see the action item below the fold.
Hours before news broke Wednesday of a mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., doctors in white coats delivered a petition with the signatures of more than 2,000 physicians to Congress demanding that it lift a ban on federal funding for research into gun violence.
The Dickey amendment, which dates back to 1996, effectively barred researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from studying gun violence. The doctors who delivered the petition spoke out about the “public health epidemic” of gun violence and were joined by Democratic lawmakers, according to a report from the Washington Post.
So Delaware has a three member Congressional delegation. I’d like the DL community to get all three of those members on the record as to where they stand on the repeal of the Dickey Amendment, and allowing the CDC to study gun violence as a public health issue.
Governor Elect John Carney – DE Phone: (302) 691-7333 DC Phone: 202-225-4165
[ ] supports allowing the CDC to research gun violence as public health issue.
[ ] does not support allowing the CDC to research gun violence as public health issue.
Senator for Life Tom Carper – Phone: (302) 573-6291 DC Phone: (202) 224-2441.
[ ] supports allowing the CDC to research gun violence as public health issue.
[ ] does not support allowing the CDC to research gun violence as public health issue.
Senator Chris Coons – Phone: (302) 573-6345 DC Phone: 202-224-5042
[ ] supports allowing the CDC to research gun violence as public health issue.
[ ] does not support allowing the CDC to research gun violence as public health issue.