The U.S.’ Largest Medical Association Will Fight Congress To Lift Ban On Gun Violence Research

The largest medical organization in the United States, the American Medical Association, passed a historic resolution last night in response to the weekend’s mass shooting. After years of tiptoeing around the topic of gun control, AMA leaders voted to officially call gun violence a public health issue — and respond accordingly.

That means flexing the organization’s powerful political muscle on Capitol Hill to refocus federal funds toward studying gun violence. To see this through, however, Congress would need to lift a 20-year-old ban that blocks the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from funding any research related to gun violence. But the AMA, with one of the largest political lobbying budgets of any organization in the U.S., appears ready to fight....
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