- Posted Jan. 11, 2013 11:10 a.m.
- The NRA even opposes scientific research on gun safety
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In recent years, we’ve seen a lot of right-wing antipathy toward science — as evidenced, for example, by climate-change denialism and opposition to the teaching of evolution in public schools.
And now THIS has emerged at Vice President Joe Biden’s task force on gun violence:
More than a hundred scientists from virtually every major U.S. university told Biden’s task force in a letter that research restrictions pushed by the NRA [National Rifle Association] have stopped the United States from finding solutions to gun violence.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has cut gun safety research by 96 percent ...
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