US Sen. Ed Markey, other Democrats to call for gun violence research funding

[SecularMotion]

SPRINGFIELD ‒ Weeks after calling on Senate leaders to consider funding federal gun violence research, U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., will join other chamber Democrats and top researchers this week to again make the case for such appropriations.

The Massachusetts Democrat, who recently penned a letter to a Senate panel on funding Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gun violence research, will team up with U.S. Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Ben Cardin, D-Md., for a Thursday morning news conference at the Capitol building.

Garen Wintemute, director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California at Davis; April Zeoli, an associate professor at Michigan State University who researches the role of firearms in intimate partner violence; and Jeffrey Swanson, a professor at the Duke University School of Medicine who has authored several publications on the epidemiology of violence and serious mental illnesses, will also join lawmakers for the event, Markey's office announced.

Senate Democrats who signed onto Markey's letter argued that funding federal gun violence research could help identify ways to prevent what they called "senseless" firearms-related deaths, adding that the issue "has never been more pressing."

http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/01/us_sen_ed_markey_other_democra_1.html

[gejohnston]

1. Wintemute need other people's money to

walk around gun shows and write ad hominem screeds?

[flamin lib]

2. Why not? Wayne Lapierre does it all the time with

gun lobby and member's money. Tit for tat GE. I prefer the tits tho . .

[gejohnston]

3. Yeah, but

Wintemute pretends it's science and wants to do it with public funds that could be better spent elsewhere. What Wayne does with NRA money is on the membership. Wintemute wants to spend the money I "contribute" through State coercion to commit academic fraud, and that is what almost all of those "studies" were. I don't give shit to Wayne's sources.

[flamin lib]

4. Well, isn't that sweet. You're "coerced" by the state for

Wintemute wanting to research the $260 Billion in damages that gun violence does and is "coerced" from me to cover the cost.

Bitch on you poor baby. My heart bleeds yellow water for you.

[Eleanors38]

7. "My heart bleeds yellow water?" Try using the restroom, dear...

...the hue and contrast of your vision wil! Improve.



...and please refrain from advocating spending my taxes on transparent (re)institutionalizing of gun control anti-gun agitprop.

[flamin lib]

10. And please refrain from advocating for people waving their

penis, ah I mean, gun in my presence. The cost of your peccadillo to the tax payer is $260 Billion. I think that gives me the right to ask YOU to help pay for research to decrease that yuuuuuuuge number and the human suffering associated with it. When the ammosexuals anti up and pay the costs of their precious 'rights' I'll stop advocating for research into gun violence.

[Eleanors38]

11. I think you were the first to "wave it" around (SEE: your reference to yellow water)...

...unless said fluids are discharging from some other part of the (male) anatomy.

Did you mean "peccadillo" or "peckerdillo?" The last would suggest some strange romantic liaison between birds and armadillos, but probably not beyond the pale in the deer woods. What do you think, since you are up on all this?

BTW, you can advocate all the "research" you want on gun-control agitprop, just not on my dime.

[flamin lib]

12. And you can advocate for whatever you want but remember that

as an American Citizen (I assume) you have to pay your share of whatever goes on in public spending. Iraq and Afghanistan war? Too bad, so sad you're paying for it like it or not. Social Security? Medicare? Medicaid? Yep that too.

Paying taxes for things you don't particularly like is the price of being a citizen of the United States. The price of freedom so to speak.

The oft repeated refrain of "Don't spend MY money on . . . " is pure tea party and you're on a liberal Democratic site.

[sarisataka]

14. How much of that $260 billion

are you personally responsible for, as an FFL holder? I assume you have sold firearms?

[gejohnston]

13. Do you hear objecting to the valid research

done by NIJ? You know, the real gun violence research done by criminologists and published in peer criminology journals. No you don't. Did I say I objected to research? No. I said advocacy and academic fraud.

[Hangingon]

5. Agree with you.

If NRA members disagree with the NRA use of dues money, they can simply stop paying dues. We cannot stop paying taxes. If the research were not slanted to control, it would be different.

[Eleanors38]

9. But isn't LaPierre the dehydrated Frenchman?

[gejohnston]

15. more like someone who needs to go fishing with his

grand kids more often.

[DonP]

6. How about hearings on what happened with the Administration's 2013 CDC gun control study?

Funny how the results kinda just sank into the carpet when they didn't say what the gun grabbers wanted.

Maye some hearings and review of the results in a high profile setting could be a good first step.

[beevul]

8. Its hard to lend any credibility to a 'piece' based on a false pretense.

There is no 'ban' on research of gun violence, only fear on the part of researchers that they themselves are incapable of doing it in an unbiased way.


Too bad, so sad. Poor babies. My heart bleeds yellow water for them.