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President Obama and Vice President Biden unveiled a series of proposals to counter gun violence in January 2013. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to get back to studying “the causes of gun violence.”

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The long stalemate continued until shortly after the December 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., when Obama announced several gun control proposals, including reversing the CDC research ban. His higher profile proposals tightening firearm background checks, reinstating the assault weapons ban were viewed as impossible to pass into law. Congress wouldn’t bite. But ending the CDC research ban? Done by executive order, it appeared to have the best shot, along with broad support fromascientific community upset that gun violence as apublic health problem was being ignored.

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The roots of the research ban go back to 1996, when the NRA accused the public health agency of lobbying for gun control. That year, a Republican congressman stripped $2.6 million from the CDC budget, the exact amount spent on gun research the previous year. Soon the funding was restored, but designated elsewhere, and wording was inserted into the CDC’s appropriations bill that, “None of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control canada goose outlet vip and Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun control.”

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Even the few gun studies that received funding took steps to avoid detection. In 2011, the National Science Foundation for a study it described as “Testing Competing Theories of Violence.” There was no mention of guns in the title or the study abstract. But Swanson said the study evaluates the effectiveness of mental health firearm restrictions. He titled the same study: “Firearms Laws, Mental Disorder, and Violence.”

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