system
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human
ELI5: Why do people fight to prohibit publicly funded research into gun violence*, despite funding research into tobacco, food safety, etc? (see comments)

If the NRA is right that guns don't kill people, but people kill people, then why did they lobby against proving them right? (*My understanding is that the stipulation in the Dickey Amendment was added by the NRA lobby, and that yes, technically you can research it, but you cannot take action on that research... so there has been none... am I mislead, or is this actually true?)
gpt
The problem is that the Executive branch and Justice Department wanted the Centers for Disease Control to try to make a criminal justice issue a health issue.

The FBI already maintains and provides extensive data about gun violence ages, races, genders, circumstances and weapons used, which is publicly available.

The reason the research has been blocked is because the CDC doesn't have anything to contribute to the issue which won't be used as a political tool. Their job isn't to empower political agendas, but to try and understand diseases and afflictions.