Noelle King on today explained this week we've been doing guns. We've been doing a lot of guns.

So many guns.

So many guns in this country, something like 400 million. We started the week by talking

about the protest movement for better control on these guns. Then per year request, we talked

about the District of Columbia V. Heller, the most important Supreme Court case about the

Second Amendment. And yesterday, we talked about the laws.

The laws, some of them that work.

But today, Noelle, we're going to talk about Dickie.

Dickie.

Do you know about Dickie?

No, I don't.

Dickie is an amendment that prevented this country for over two decades from doing any

research into gun violence as a public health problem.

Yeah, that sounds very dumb.

There's a very odd quirk in our federal government. And we're going to try and figure out how

it came to be and what can be discovered now about this gun crisis that we have now

that everyone kind of realized how dumb Dickie was.

It's today explained, I'm Sean Ramesh for him and this is Dr. Megan Rani.

I'm an emergency physician and academic dean of the School of Public Health at Brown University.

My second favorite university.

And have been a violence prevention researcher for over 15 years.

Those of you who listen closely may recognize Dr. Rani's voice.

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