Congress suppresses gun data to keep the public uninformed about gun harms

Evidence

Sound gun policies require reliable data based on genuine gun reforms that are fully implemented, closely monitored, and adequately assessed. Vigorous political battles are fought over questionable data based on weak, easily circumventable gun regulations that are poorly enforced. By intimidating federal agencies for funding gun research and barring them from interpreting gun-related data, Congress keeps the public uninformed about the social effects of guns in society. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1330

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes how policy actors suppress inconvenient evidence to enable harmful policy, parallel to mechanisms the reader studies in moral disengagement of regulators.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1330