Posted on 04/15/2019 3:25:13 PM PDT by spintreebob
A year has passed since Congress clarified that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was allowed to conduct gun violence research, but the agency has yet to receive a significant increase in funding to support that effort.
The past 12 months simply reflect a dearth of funding over two decades that experts feel has left the country no closer to answering some of the most important questions about the nature of gun violence, limiting progress in reducing the number of deaths and injuries that occur each year due to firearms.
That puts hospitals, a major stakeholder in the epidemic of gun violence, in an even greater bind as they try to tackle the social determinants of health with little guidance in that area.
“I cannot overstate the impact of lack of funding from Congress,” said Dr. Megan Ranney, director of the Emergency Digital Health Innovation program at Brown University and chief research officer at the American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine, or AFFIRM. The nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization provides funding for firearm injury research that will focus on creating best practices on firearm injury for healthcare providers.
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““I cannot overstate the impact of lack of funding from Congress,” said Dr. Megan Ranney, director of the Emergency Digital Health Innovation program at Brown University.”
Translation: Dr. Ranney isn’t sure she can buy a new 2019 C 300 Mercedes Sedan without the government stealing money from her neighbors.
Dr. Ranney has never worked an honest day in her life and wants to suck the blood from your family.
When you get shot, it hurts.
There you go, free advice.
What is gun violence? I have owned dozens of guns over a period of 45 plus years and never once has a single one of them been violent. I have never in my life seen a gun be violent. I have seen human beings use a gun to be violent. Maybe they should study that!
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