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[quote=Anonymous]OP's question is why we need to reverse past legislation that caused a chilling effect on public health research related to guns, because what is needed is extensive data related to a lot of factors. Might note that a large percentage of guns used in Chicago violent crime are not purchased in Chicago--their legal purchases were made in jurisdictions (I think Indiana) where it is easier to buy weapons.

A lot of data that could be used to analyze the effect of policies on gun deaths and injuries--and the kind of gun deaths (public mass shootings vs. domestic or workplace violence related, accidental vs deliberate, suicide vs homicide attempts, gun ownership patterns) is simply not collected. Also keep in mind the majority of gun deaths are due to suicide, not homicide.

The ratio of dollars spent per highway fatality vs gun fatality is something like 160:1.

I forget what the particular type of data is, but apparently ATF used to collect large amounts of certain gun-related data used by other agencies but stopped due to legislation (not the CDC gag rule, I don't think, it was something else).

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