Obama: ‘Congress Will Not Allow the CDC to Study Gun Violence'

On June 2, Obama gave a provactive argument for common sense gun laws. He compared the issue of gun violence to auto fatality rates. Though direct action was taken to lower car-related deaths, such as seatbelt laws and required air bags, no studies are even allowed to be conducted on gun violence.

"Why don't we treat this like everything else we use? We used to have really bad auto fatality rates. The auto fatality rates have actually dropped, precipitously, drastically, since I was a kid. Why is that? We decided to have seatbelt laws. We decided to have manufacturers put air bags in place. We decided to crack down on drunk driving and texting. We decided to redesign roads so that they were less likely to have a car bank. We studied what is causing these fatalities using science and data and evidence, and then we slowly treated it like the public health problem that it was.

We are not allowed to use any of that when it comes to guns because when you propose anything it is suggested that we are trying to wipe away gun rights and promote tyranny and martial law. Do you know that Congress will not allow the Center of Disease Control to study gun violence? They are not allowed to study it because the notion is that by studying it, the same way we do with traffic accidents, somehow that is going to lead to everyone's guns being confiscated. If you buy a car and want to get a license--first of all you have to get a license, people have to know you know how to drive--you don't have to do any of that in respect to buying a gun."

How can we expect the problem to change when we don't fully understand it?

Obama also notes that those put on airplane watch-lists are still free to purchase weapons. "Because of the National Rifle Association, I can not prohibit those people from buying a gun."

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