Why the CDC Can't Research Gun Violence

On the Media | Jan 8, 2016

Hours before last month's mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, a group of physicians petitioned Congress to end the so-called Dickey Amendment, a nearly twenty-year-old ban that effectively prevents the CDC from researching gun violence. Brooke talks with Todd Zwillich, Washington Correspondent for The Takeaway, about the history of the ban and its current political state.

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"Tema di Otto e Mezzo" by Nino Rota

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