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<blockquote data-quote="oldngray" data-source="post: 1216883" data-attributes="member: 45230">Pew research has a liberal bias so that needs to be taken in account when looking at their claims. And Study co-author Dr. Dermot Lynott of Lancaster University&nbsp; said, “We&nbsp; were initially surprised that no one had studied this issue&nbsp; before;&nbsp; however, the US government cut research funding for gun-related&nbsp;&nbsp; research over decade and a half ago, so research in this area has been&nbsp;&nbsp; somewhat suppressed.”&nbsp; fails to mention that the reason the government funding stopped was because a law was passed to prevent spending taxpayer dollars on studies that are just looking for reasons to support an anti gun agenda.In the 1996 <a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-104publ208/pdf/PLAW-104publ208.pdf" target="_blank">Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Bill</a>&nbsp; for Fiscal Year 1997 states that “none of the funds made available for&nbsp; injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and&nbsp; Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun control.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="oldngray, post: 1216883, member: 45230"] Pew research has a liberal bias so that needs to be taken in account when looking at their claims. And [I]Study co-author Dr. Dermot Lynott of Lancaster University said, “We were initially surprised that no one had studied this issue before; however, the US government cut research funding for gun-related research over decade and a half ago, so research in this area has been somewhat suppressed.”[/I] fails to mention that the reason the government funding stopped was because a law was passed to prevent spending taxpayer dollars on studies that are just looking for reasons to support an anti gun agenda.In the 1996 [URL="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-104publ208/pdf/PLAW-104publ208.pdf"]Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Bill[/URL] for Fiscal Year 1997 states 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.” [/QUOTE]

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