I think a great plan is to simply point fingers at guns, and not analyze the root cause of this kind of aggression.
This coming from a person who advocates that certain weapons be banned, certain types of ammo be banned, for mandatory waiting periods for the purchase of certain types of weapons, and the same rules be applicable to gun shows, and person-to-person sale of certain kinds of weapons.
That would be great except the government won't let the CDC research gun violence because the NRA has congress held hostage on the issue. Pass legislation permitting goverment funding for research on gun violence and they pull their donations to sitting members of congress.
Bucket, can you place a number of on the amount of non government funded research that is done at America's top 200 Research Universities? I.E. Research funded by university endowments, private trusts and the like?
I'll give a start. In FY 2017 K-State spent nearly $200 million on research. Now, I'll grant you a huge chunk of that was the Federal Gov. But Just a quick glance indicates that 3-4-5-6 million (minimum) was funded by all kinds of non government entities. Now extrapolate that over the fact that the K-State is probably pushing #200 in terms overall research expenditures. So once you peel it back hundreds of millions of dollars of research funding at the Top 200 comes from non Federal agencies. Nobody in that giant pie willing to fund research on gun violence??
