Quote Originally Posted by Ibrahim View Post
with the current situation in the federal government, how can you guarantee they will fund honest researchers, instead of any quack who'll tow the government line (assuming one)? consider the kind of researchers they used in 1937 when considering the Marijuana tax act: they weren't exactly "impartial", or even "qualified", if you know what I mean (one guy "proved" marijuana was deadly to humans, by directly injecting TCP into Dog brains IIRC.)
The answer to bad research is not no research. Under current law, people who look at large-scale epidemiology and mortality are not allowed to even tabulate gun deaths. It's nuts, and should be changed.

(And yes, the NRA will howl that this is the beginning of Hitler and Stalin and the end of freedom. But since the NRA appears to be trying to live out The Boy Who Cried Wolf, that's their problem, not ours.)