
Do assault weapons bans work?
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The Dickey Amendment and Gun Violence Research
The CDC was doing research on gun ownership and what the effects of having a gun in your home are. Congress got involved and Jay Dickey had his name on a bill that required that the government no longer perform any advocacy research. "I want to dig into this data because one of the things that I find really interesting about numbers is that once you have the data, people are going to come to their own conclusions"
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