Spending Bill Allows CDC To Study Gun Violence, Researchers Skeptical It Will Help
Congress passed an amendment in 1996 limiting the Centers for Disease Control's ability to study gun control. That will change with the new budget, but gun violence researchers aren't impressed.
Government health agencies have spent more than two decades shying away from gun violence research, but some say the new spending bill, signed by President Trump Friday, will change that.
That's because, in agency instructions that accompany the bill, there's one sentence noting that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has the authority to conduct research on the causes of gun violence.
"I think this is a huge victory for our country and our communities, a Democrat from the Orlando, Fla., area.
