Groups present Congress with petition for lifting of ban passed in 1996, calling gun violence ‘a public health problem that kills 90 Americans a day’Doctors’ groups joined Democrats on Wednesday in calling on the US Congress to lift the ban on the exhaust of federal funds for gun violence research.A collection of physicians’ groups delivered a petition to the US Capitol signed by more than 2000 doctors across America seeking a reversal of a 20-year ban that prohibits the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct research on gun violence. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com