{"id":10126,"date":"2023-03-01T16:59:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T16:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10126"},"modified":"2023-03-01T16:59:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T16:59:21","slug":"why-most-gun-laws-arent-backed-up-by-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10126","title":{"rendered":"Why Most Gun Laws Aren\u2019t Backed Up By Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The Dickey Amendment, first attached to the 1996 omnibus spending bill, for example, famously prevented the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from funding gun violence studies for decades.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/decades-long-gap-gun-violence-research-funding-lasting\/story?id=80646946\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A new interpretation of that amendment in 2018 changed that<\/a>, but Dickey wasn\u2019t the only thing making it hard to study gun violence.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, the researchers told me, the biggest impediment to demonstrating whether gun control policies work is the way politicians have intentionally blocked access to the data that would be necessary to do that research.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-fivethirtyeight\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"EVGQl44zzN\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/absence-of-evidence-gun-laws\/\">Why Most Gun Laws Aren\u2019t Backed Up By Evidence<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Why Most Gun Laws Aren\u2019t Backed Up By Evidence&#8221; &#8212; FiveThirtyEight\" src=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/absence-of-evidence-gun-laws\/embed\/#?secret=RfkiVEmzqx#?secret=EVGQl44zzN\" data-secret=\"EVGQl44zzN\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Dickey Amendment, first attached to the 1996 omnibus spending bill, for example, famously prevented the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from funding gun violence studies for decades. A new interpretation of that amendment in 2018 changed that, but Dickey wasn\u2019t the only thing making it hard to study gun violence.<br \/>\nInstead, the researchers told me, the biggest impediment to demonstrating whether gun control policies work is the way politicians have intentionally blocked access to the data that would be necessary to do that research.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[542,348,1503,110,113,112,109,906,811,48],"class_list":["post-10126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-congress","tag-data","tag-evidence","tag-firearms","tag-gun-control","tag-gun-laws","tag-guns","tag-legislation","tag-science","tag-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10127,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10126\/revisions\/10127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}