Citation

Dyer O. BMJ 2016; 353: i3529.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, BMJ Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1136/bmj.i3529

PMID

27339802

Abstract

The American Medical Association, whose annual meeting declared gun violence in the United States a public health emergency earlier this month (2016), will lend its formidable lobbying arm to efforts to overturn a congressional ban on government sponsored epidemiological research into factors behind gun deaths.

“An epidemiological analysis of gun violence is vital so physicians and other health providers, law enforcement, and society at large may be able to prevent injury, death, and other harms to society resulting from firearms,” said the association’s president, Steven Stack, in a statement.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used to carry out research into gun violence but stopped in 1996, when the …

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