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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I personally know of two people who were in terrible car accidents, but survived because they were not wearing seatbelts. True.

But try pinning that statistic on any sort of policy or even psa to discourage folks from wearing seatbelts.

Why? Because the exception isn't the rule.

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and people should have common sense.   Using a seat belt is the smart thing to do.

The chance that I would stop a violent attack with my gun versus the chance that I would kill myself, or accidentally hurt someone else.   It is just idiocy to think that a gun reduces violence.
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Rivara and his team discovered that having a gun in the home is associated with a threefold increase in the risk of a homicide — they released this information in a series of peer-reviewed articles that appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine. The CDC both funded Rivara’s original research and stood by the findings.[/i]

http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-07-02/quietly-congress-extends-ban-cdc-research-gun-violence

So congress has stopped CDC from doing research on gun violence.

Gun Lobby is so scared of the results that their pawns have outlawed common sense research.

A bunch of scared impotent cowards is the NRA.[/quote]

NO, CONGRESS HAS NOT "stopped CDCP from doing research on gun violence."

Congress included language in the 1996 Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Bill (PDF, 2.4MB) for Fiscal Year 1997 that “none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun control.” Referred to as the Dickey amendment after its author, former U.S. House Representative Jay Dickey (R-AR), this language did not explicitly ban research on gun violence. "

[Congress] not FUNDING the CDCP research isn't the same thing as Congress prohibiting research.   Why don't YOU put your money where your rmouth is to fund some research?

Make an effort to know what you're talking about before launching the invective, grabber.[/quote]

What are they supposed to stop work on in order to do this?  Childrens' Leukemia?[/quote]

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