Bernie Sanders joined Hillary Clinton and virtually every other morally competent person in condemning the NRA-fueled gun epidemic that spurred the mass murder epidemic, the chief blot in an era of otherwise-declining crime rates.  He even urged the Federal government to resume funding of studies on gun violence.

But as Reuters’ Luciana Lopez points out, there was a time when his attitude towards Federally-funded gun violence studies was markedly different:

Congress, at the urging of gun rights supporters, put restrictions on CDC funding of gun research into the federal budget in 1996.

Sanders, then a Vermont U.S. representative, voted against an amendment, which ultimately failed, that would have authorized funding for such research, according to the website for the Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives. ( usa.gov/...)

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While in the House of Representatives, he supported a 2005 federal law that shielded gun manufacturers, distributors and dealers from civil liability for mass shootings, and voted against the 1993 Brady Bill that imposed mandatory background checks and waiting periods for gun purchases.

Towards the end of the piece, we see this sentence:

The Sanders campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Thursday.

Somehow I’m not surprised.