Anonymous ID: d40842 Feb. 28, 2018, 1:19 p.m. No.519556   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>519404

THIS!

 

In United States politics, the Dickey Amendment is a provision first inserted as a rider into the 1996 federal government omnibus spending bill which mandated that "none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) may be used to advocate or promote gun control."[1] In the same spending bill, Congress earmarked $2.6 million from the CDC's budget, the exact amount that had previously been allocated to the agency for firearms research the previous year, for traumatic brain injury-related research.[2]

 

The amendment was lobbied for by the NRA. The amendment is named after its author Jay Dickey, a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas.[2]

 

Many commentators have described this amendment as a "ban" on gun violence research by the CDC.[3] Jay Dickey himself has subsequently regretted introducing the amendment, and there have been unsuccessful attempts to repeal it.

https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickey_Amendment_(1996)

 

Slipped it in so slick that hardly anyone even noticed. Now we'll see if the CDC will correlate SSRIs with gun craziness. And video games.