Hugh Jim Bissle- Gunshot injuries vs. Bicycle injures & Gunshot deaths vs. Bicycle deaths

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2. And that is why the NRA made sure the CDC was banned from research involving guns and gun injuries.

But preventible injuries are a public health concern. It is common for the CDC, our national public health institution, to study injuries such as car accidents, drownings, playground injuries, nursing home falls, and the like to first understand the exact scope of the problem, and to identify rational solutions.

Sadly, where gunshot injuries are concerned, the CDC has been specifically banned by congress (via funding mechanisms) from doing this important and life-saving kind of research. And this ban came after lobbying from the gun industry, which was apparently concerned that this kind of honest review of the facts and data on gun injuries and gun ownership might show guns in a bad light.

Not suprisingly, the CDC is banned from only one type of public health research - and that is research involving guns and gun injuries.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/26/1124441/-Gunshot-Injuries-in-America-Parallel-Sales-of-Guns?showAll=yes