Sen. Ed Markey Wants CDC to Study Guns as 'Public Health
Crisis'
Thursday, 22 May 2014 09:06 AM
By Melanie Batley
Sen. Ed Markey has introduced a bill that would give $10 million a year
to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention to fund research on gun violence prevention and firearms safety.
The proposal by the Massachusetts
Democrat was also introduced in the House by New York Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney and would be effective
from 2015 for six years.
"It is time we study the
issue of gun violence like the public health crisis it is. If we want to
prevent injury and deaths from guns, we need to know what can be done to
prevent it," Markey said in a statement, according to the Massachusetts news
outlet Mass Live. "No one should be afraid of more nonpartisan, scientific
research of this issue – not Democrats, not Republicans, and not the NRA."
The measure would take forward an
executive order for gun violence research signed by President Barack Obama in
March, which requires congressional approval to secure the funding.
Following the December 2012 school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut,
there was a renewed push for gun-control legislation, but reform efforts have stalled.
Republicans and the NRA, which
oppose new gun-control measures,
have argued in part that there is a lack of research-based evidence to prove
whether new laws would reduce gun-related violence.
2012 school shootings in Newtown
Newtown
(CT) is the location of the 2012
massacre at Sandy Hook
Elementary School.
Note: Martin Feinberg
is a Newtown (CT) resident, and his
son is Stephen A. Feinberg.
Stephen A.
Feinberg is Martin Feinberg’s
son, the CEO for and Cerberus Capital
Management L.P., and a trustee at the Public
Theater.
Cerberus
Capital Management L.P. is the owner of the Freedom Group.
Freedom Group
is a gunmaker.
Bushmaster
Firearms is a Freedom Group brand.
Remington
is a Freedom Group brand.
Michael P.C.
Carns is a director at the Freedom
Group, and was a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank).
Mark
R. Warner is a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank), an honorary chair for the Alliance to Save Energy, and was the president of the Alfalfa Club.
Edward
J. Markey was the vice chair for the Alliance
to Save Energy, and is a U.S. Senate
senator.
Frances G.
Beinecke was a director at the Alliance
to Save Energy, and is a member of the Women's
Forum.
Carolyn B. Maloney
is a member of the Women's Forum, a
member of the U.S. House of
Representatives, and a House member for the NY congressional delegation.
Nita
M. Lowey is a House member for the NY
congressional delegation, and was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Open Society
Foundations was a funder for the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank), and the American Constitution Society.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, was a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone, and the
chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Harlem Children's Zone, the Robin
Hood Foundation, and the NAACP Legal
Defense & Educational Fund.
Michael R.
Bloomberg was a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, a donor for the Robin
Hood Foundation, the New York (NY) mayor, is a member of the Alfalfa Club, a co-chair for Mayors Against Illegal Guns, and the founder
of the Bloomberg Family Foundation.
NRA-ILA (Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Gun Control History)
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for the CDC
Foundation.
CDC Foundation
is a foundation for the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
David
Satcher is a board member for the CDC
Foundation, was a director at the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), at the interim president for the Morehouse School of Medicine.
Eric H. Holder Jr.
is a trustee at the Morehouse School of
Medicine, the attorney general at the U.S.
Department of Justice for the Barack
Obama administration, was an intern at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, and a board member at
the American Constitution Society.
Faith Elizabeth
Gay is a director at the American
Constitution Society, a trustee at the Public
Theater, and was an attorney at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Stephen A.
Feinberg is a trustee at the Public
Theater, Martin Feinberg’s son, the
CEO for and Cerberus Capital Management
L.P.
Martin Feinberg
is Stephen A. Feinberg’s father, and
a Newtown (CT) resident.
Newtown
(CT) is the location of the 2012
massacre at Sandy Hook
Elementary School.
R.
Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP, and his golf partner is Melody
C. Barnes.
Melody
C. Barnes is Barack Obama’s golf
partner, was the domestic policy council, director for the Barack Obama administration, and a principal at the Raben Group.
Raben
Group is the lobby firm for Mayors
Against Illegal Guns & the NAACP
Legal Defense & Educational Fund, and was the lobby firm for the Morehouse School of Medicine.
Robert
Raben is the president of the Raben
Group, was a director at the American
Constitution Society, and the assistant attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice.
Eric H. Holder Jr.
is a trustee at the Morehouse School of
Medicine, the attorney general at the U.S.
Department of Justice for the Barack
Obama administration, was an intern at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, and a board member at
the American Constitution Society.
NRA-ILA (Eric Holder’s Gun Control History)
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