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Billionaire Couple Promises $20 Million To Fund Gun Violence Research
Speaking at the Forbes 400 Summit on Philanthropy on Wednesday, philanthropist Laura Arnold announced plans to spend $20 million over the next five years to fund gun violence research. She and her husband's foundation would look to raise an additional $30 million, bringing funding up to $50 million for a grant project called the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research.
“Ninety-six people are killed by guns in the U.S. every day. More people have been killed in schools than in military deployment so far in 2018,” Arnold said. “While I was writing my remarks for today, 40 miles away from Houston another school shooting started.”
She pointed out that one of the students at the school in Santa Fe, Texas, said in an interview that she was not surprised by the shooting because she thought it would eventually happen at her school. “I don’t want to live in a country where children worry about the whether they will be shot at school,” Arnold said. “It’s a critical time for philanthropy to step in and catalyze the government to act. To cut through the politics with data.”
Part of the problem is that there has indeed been so little research on gun violence. “After every mass shooting there was talk of policy changes, but the discussions were not rooted in evidence,” she later explained. In 1996 Congress passed an amendment that was interpreted as a ban on gun violence research, so no government-funded research on the topic has been conducted since. As part of a spending bill earlier this year, Congress said that the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention could conduct research on gun violence, but Congress failed to allocate the CDC money to do so.
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Billionaire Couple Promises $20 Million To Fund Gun Violence Research
Speaking at the Forbes 400 Summit on Philanthropy on Wednesday, philanthropist Laura Arnold announced plans to spend $20 million over the next five years to fund gun violence research. She and her husband's foundation would look to raise an additional $30 million, bringing funding up to $50 million for a grant project called the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research.
“Ninety-six people are killed by guns in the U.S. every day. More people have been killed in schools than in military deployment so far in 2018,” Arnold said. “While I was writing my remarks for today, 40 miles away from Houston another school shooting started.”
She pointed out that one of the students at the school in Santa Fe, Texas, said in an interview that she was not surprised by the shooting because she thought it would eventually happen at her school. “I don’t want to live in a country where children worry about the whether they will be shot at school,” Arnold said. “It’s a critical time for philanthropy to step in and catalyze the government to act. To cut through the politics with data.”
Part of the problem is that there has indeed been so little research on gun violence. “After every mass shooting there was talk of policy changes, but the discussions were not rooted in evidence,” she later explained. In 1996 Congress passed an amendment that was interpreted as a ban on gun violence research, so no government-funded research on the topic has been conducted since. As part of a spending bill earlier this year, Congress said that the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention could conduct research on gun violence, but Congress failed to allocate the CDC money to do so.
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Billionaire Couple Promises $20 Million To Fund Gun Violence Research
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