{"id":6813,"date":"2025-09-12T23:04:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T23:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/12\/gun-violence-cdc-prevention-efforts-gutted\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T23:04:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T23:04:37","slug":"gun-violence-cdc-prevention-efforts-gutted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/12\/gun-violence-cdc-prevention-efforts-gutted\/","title":{"rendered":"As U.S. faces deadly week, gun violence experts lament end of prevention research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    As U.S. faces deadly week, gun violence experts lament end of prevention research<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Two violent acts on Wednesday \u2014 the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and the shooting of two high school students in Colorado \u2014 crystallize the threat gun violence poses to public health. Yet the Trump administration just shut down its biggest programs devoted to preventing such violence.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention led public health research and initiatives on the cause, persistence, and prevention of firearm violence. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/06\/07\/rfk-jr-administration-for-healthy-america-chronic-disease-budget-documents\/\">Cuts to budgets and the workforce<\/a> have thrown the CDC\u2019s Center for Injury Prevention into disarray, with funding withdrawn then renewed, reductions in force paused and then made final last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/09\/12\/gun-violence-cdc-prevention-efforts-gutted\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Elizabeth Cooney<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/09\/12\/gun-violence-cdc-prevention-efforts-gutted\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As U.S. faces deadly week, gun violence experts lament end of prevention research Two violent acts on Wednesday \u2014 the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and the shooting of two high school students in Colorado \u2014 crystallize the threat gun violence poses to public health. Yet the Trump administration just shut down its biggest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2145,1428,2144,2180,2149],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-6813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cdc","category-health","category-politics","category-public-health","category-rfk-jr","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}