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The Trajectory
The first edition of The Trajectory, our latest newsletter, explores a new effort to improve data on nonfatal shootings.
Ask The Trace
Offering cash for guns can be a quick way to get some firearms off the streets. Readers question whether the programs actually reduce violence.
Ricochet
To make sense of his experience, Volkan Topalli reflected on years of conversations with the people most vulnerable to crime.
Data
How David Stark put a number to the knowledge gap surrounding fatal shootings.
Rabies cases, by comparison, are far more rare than shootings, yet the disease receives exponentially more research awards from the National Institutes of Health.
The Knowledge Gap
It’s the latest example of the agency’s reluctance to engage with shootings as a public health crisis.
The agency faces the same obstacles as the CDC, but has funded two substantial gun violence studies since the Sandy Hook massacre.
“There is nothing stopping them from addressing this life-and-death national problem.”
National Rifle Association
"My conscience wasn't doing well," says Jay Dickey, who adds that he never intended his budget amendment to prohibit the CDC from studying firearm deaths and injuries.
Politics
A 19-year-old prohibition on CDC studies of gun violence stays in place.
