Nancy Pelosi: “The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control provides the Nation with information that is crucial, reliable…”

“The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control provides the Nation with information that is crucial, reliable, and well-respected among experts about the incidence of and extent to which injuries, including those which result from automobile accidents, fires, domestic violence, bicycle accidents, and guns affect our lives, and identify strategies for reducing these injuries, many of which are fatal. The gun injury crisis facing our Nation, especially our children, must not be ignored and cannot be hidden. Firearms violence from homicides, suicide, or, and this is important, accidental shootings, killed 5,751 children aged 1 to 19 in 1993. Child deaths from guns in a year are the equivalent of more than the deaths of 205 classrooms of children. We need CDC research and expertise to help inform the Nation, to help gun owners have safety.”