Bernie Sanders, Senate Democrats Call to End the Ban on CDC Gun Violence Research

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 24, 2016  – Sen. Bernie Sanders and 16 senators urged Senate appropriators in a letter this week to dedicate funds for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct research into the causes and prevention of gun violence in the United States.

A 1996 Republican appropriations rider prohibits federal funds from being used to advocate or promote gun control, which some have misconstrued as a ban on funding scientific research into the causes…