Federal funding for research on gun violence has been
restricted for nearly two decades.
President Obama urged Congress to allocate $10 million for new research
after the Newtown school shooting. But House Republicans say
they won't approve it. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's budget still lists zero dollars for research on gun violence prevention.
One of the researchers who
lost funding
in the political battle over studying firearms was Dr. Garen Wintemute,
a professor of emergency medicine who runs the Violence Prevention
Research Program at the University of California, Davis. Wintemute is,
by his own count, one of only
a dozen researchers across the country who have continued to focus full-time on firearms violence.
To keep his research going, Wintemute has donated his own money, as the science journal
Nature noted in a
profile of him
last year. As of the end of 2013, he has donated about $1.1 million,
according to Kathryn Keyes, a fundraiser at UC Davis' development
office. His work has also continued to get funding from some foundations
and the state of California.
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