“I have regrets”1 admitted former congressman Jay Dickey (R-AR) in a 2015 interview with The Huffington Post, only five days after a shooting at a community college in Oregon left 10 dead and eight more injured, and almost two decades after the passage of the federal amendment that bears his name. The Dickey Amendment, as it is known, added language to a 1996 federal spending bill specifying that no funds could be used to “advocate or promote gun control,” effectively halting federally-funded research related to gun-violence … Download the full article below.