GOP congresswoman: No need for more gun violence research, the NRA has us covered
Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) said Thursday that it would be a waste of federal tax dollars to look into how to stop tens of thousand of annual gun deaths.
JOSH ISRAEL
NOV 2, 2018, 9:05 AM
Nearly 40,000 people die annually from gun deaths in the United States. Thanks to the gun lobby, the federal government has largely been prohibited from doing research to figure out how to reduce those numbers. But Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) said Thursday that she thinks any more research would be a waste of money. Her reasoning: the National Rifle Association already has done all the research we need.
Tenney, who is facing a close re-election race in New York’s 22nd Congressional District, debated her Democratic opponent, Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi (D), on Thursday night. After bragging about being “very proud” of her “A” rating from the NRA, she was asked by the moderator whether she would support funding to study gun violence in this country. Without hesitating, Tenney made clear she would not.
In 1996, the National Rifle Association and one of its champions, then-Rep. Jay Dickey (R-AR) pushed through Congress a legislative provision that effectively blocked Centers for Disease Control doing any research on the causes of gun violence in America. In 2015, after a mass shooting in Oregon, even Dickey himself suggested that his amendment should be scrapped and that federal research was needed to find ways to stop the problem. Following the horrific mass killings in Parkland, Fla., Congress passed a bill in March that lifted the prohibition but did not appropriate the funds for such research.
Tenney said Thursday that it would be a waste to spend money on this research, because we already know all we need to know. “We’ve spent a fortune studying gun violence,” she claimed. “One of the things the NRA does, it was actually founded in New York City. The prime purpose, the reason that [the] NRA was founded was to provide education and safety for people handling firearms. So we want to spend more tax dollars to study something that we already know a lot about? I don’t think that’s a good use of taxpayer money. ”
https://thinkprogress.org/congresswoman-opposes-gun-violence-research-nra-does-that-already-61622723373a/
This hypocrite, that would say what she said in the beginning quotes headlines, shows that for one...................if her kids got killed by a gun she would have no empathy, because the only thing she thinks about is getting tax dollars from the taxpayers at $174,000 a year and also getting paid off by an industry that basically promotes death at our expense.................
Two, for every gun injury in this country our heath care system is taxed to the max for the harm that it has caused, the bankruptcy it can inflict on the victim if they survive and the family of the victim in hospital and after care costs.................
How dare she say that the NRA has her covered..................no lady they have us covered in blood and they got money from the fucking Russians............................who fucking side are you on ......................that is the question......who's side are you on.................apparently not the American side................except your side of greed and Russians..................
Solution:
https://brindisiforcongress.com/
November 6, 2018 cannot get here fast enough..........................vote
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