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In an interview with Slate on Sunday, Garen Wintemute, a professor of emergency room medicine and director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis, revealed why gun research is such an uphill battle in the U.S. While guns claim 30,000 lives a year and injure 75,000, “federal funding for research is less than $200,000 a year,” he told Tiffany O’Callaghan. “In contrast, public health research on motor vehicle accidents—which also claim 30,000 lives each year—receives close to $4 million.”

This is not an accident—it is a result of a deliberate lobbying effort begun in the mid-1990s, Dr. Wintemute said. And it doesn’t look like it’s going to change anytime soon:

“There is a proposal in Congress to allow for $10 million in research funding. But I suspect it essentially has no chance of making it. Even if it did, our Department of Health and Human Services prohibits any of the funds from being used, and I’m quoting directly here, “to advocate or promote gun control.” That means even if I had money to do the research, it would be a crime to talk about the policy implications.”

According to Dr. Wintemute, disarming society isn’t an option—there are 300 million firearms in circulation. What works are background checks—specifically, weeding out those who are prohibited from owning firearms, such as people with a history of violent misdemeanors and alcohol abuse.

Here is today’s report.

—Jennifer Mascia

Friday:

A 4-year-old boy was grazed in the head after climbing into a family car and finding a 9mm semiautomatic handgun in LaPlata, Md., Thursday night. LaKivia Dorrough, 21, and her sister, 10-year-old Keimaya Robertson, were wounded when bullets from a drive-by shooting penetrated their home in the Pleasant Grove area of Dallas, Tex., Thursday night.

A 14-year-old boy was shot in the leg and wounded in Aurora, Ill., Friday night, and another 14-year-old boy was arrested. A 15-year-old boy was shot and wounded in an alley in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, Ill., Friday evening. The 18-year-old son of a police officer shot and killed a home invader in Fort Bend County, Tex., Friday afternoon.

52-year-old Julio Mejia, the owner of an Orlando, Fla., bar, was gunned down by a 25-year-old bar patron following an argument early Friday. Johnny Lee Upshaw, 21, was shot and killed at an apartment complex in Fort Wayne, Ind., Friday afternoon. Two people were wounded in a drive-by shooting in Jefferson City, Mo., early Friday.

Marcia Marie Winningham, 43, was shot and killed in her home in Charlotte, N.C., early Friday, and her estranged husband, David Mark Fields, was arrested; her sister-in-law, Raemona Winningham, 46, and Raemona’s husband, Anthony Obee, 51, were wounded in the shooting. A teenager was robbed and shot as he was walking near Boyd Park in Nashville, Tenn., Thursday night.

An 18-year-old man was shot and wounded during a drug transaction at his home in south Nashville, Tenn., Friday afternoon. A 28-year-old man was shot and wounded during a dispute in Yonkers, N.Y., late Thursday, and police are searching for his 17-year-old brother. Two boys, 16 and 17, were shot after a high school football game in the Hunting Park section of Philadelphia, Pa., Friday night.

Two teenagers, 16 and 17, were shot outside Agape Christian Academy in Orlando, Fla., shortly after classes were dismissed Friday afternoon. Jowanna Gooden, 26, was found shot to death on the Burke-Gilman Trail in north Seattle, Wash., early Friday. A 23-year-old man was found shot to death on a roadway in Phoenix, Ariz., Thursday night. 25-year-old Justin Lamar Carreker was shot to death in Brunswick, Ga., early Friday.

A shooting on the north side of Flint, Mich., left one person dead Friday night. A man was shot twice and wounded in the east Oak Cliff district of Dallas, Tex., Thursday. A man accidentally shot himself in the chest at a skate park in Nashua, N.H., Friday night. A man in his 30s was shot and wounded after an altercation with another man in south Arlington, Va., Friday night.

A 21-year-old man was wounded in a drive-by shooting at a gas station in east Oakland, Calif., early Friday. Charity Alder was wounded in a road rage shooting on Highway 28 in Marion County, Tenn., Thursday night. A 45-year-old man was shot in the neck and critically wounded in Wichita, Kan., Friday night. Caleb K. Scott, 21, was shot and killed after an argument near a BP service station in St. Petersburg, Fla., early Friday.

A man was shot and critically wounded on the north side of Indianapolis, Ind., Friday night; it was the ninth shooting over the last three days in the city. A man was shot and wounded in the Woodlawn area of Baltimore County, Md., Friday evening. Julius Stelly, 33, was shot and critically wounded after an argument with an acquaintance in Beaumont, Tex., Friday afternoon.

Two people were shot and wounded when a homecoming party got out of hand at the Charleston, W.Va., Moose Lodge early Friday. A man and a woman were shot and wounded at an apartment complex in Bonita, Calif., Friday afternoon, and the suspected shooter was killed by police after a SWAT standoff. 24-year-old Christopher Jones was shot multiple times and killed during an argument in Chattanooga, Tenn., Friday night.

Lamar Antonio Blackwood, 26, was shot several times and killed in the lobby of an apartment building in the Flatlands section of Brooklyn, N.Y., Friday afternoon. About four hours later, in the West New Brighton neighborhood of Staten Island, N.Y., a 25-year-old man was shot in the stomach and critically wounded. A 21-year-old woman was shot and wounded in Greensboro, N.C., Friday night.

21-year-old Jenna Sammon was critically wounded and her boyfriend, 27-year-old Tristan Hart, was killed in a shooting outside her home in Posen, Ill., Friday morning; her ex-boyfriend, Sherman Threets, 28, the suspected gunman, was killed by police. 27-year-old Alex Hernandez was killed in a gang-related shooting in Salinas, Calif., Friday night. A woman was killed and three others were seriously wounded in a car-to-car shooting in Kansas City, Mo., Friday night.

A 19-year-old man was shot multiple times and killed in the parking lot of an apartment complex in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans, La., Friday night. 57-year-old Mark Foxvog was wounded when a neighbor was conducting target practice in his trailer and a bullet came through the wall of the victim’s residence in Columbus, Neb., Thursday night.

Desmond Braxton, 28, was killed when she was shot during an argument at a Memphis, Tenn., apartment complex Friday night. 27-year-old Sergio Beldo was shot and killed in an apartment in Binghamton, N.Y., early Friday. A man was shot in the head and killed after an altercation in a southwest Las Vegas, Nev., apartment Thursday evening, and his roommate, 26-year-old Mary Pitrello, was arrested.

Saturday:

A 5-year-old boy was wounded in an accidental, self-inflicted shooting in Huntsville, Ala., Saturday morning. A 17-year-old boy was shot dead in the courtyard of the Eastchester Houses in the Bronx, N.Y., early Saturday. A man in his 20s was shot multiple times and killed at a strip club in the Woodside area of Queens, N.Y., early Saturday.

A 45-year-old man was shot in the chest by four masked men attempting to steal his marijuana in a grow house in Clearlake, Calif., early Saturday. A shooting left 22-year-old David Issmael Morales dead and a 21-year-old man injured in Delano, Calif., early Saturday. An off-duty police officer was shot and wounded with his own gun after a traffic collision escalated to a shooting near the 5 Freeway in Castaic, Calif., early Saturday.

A shootout at a motorcycle clubhouse in Fresno, Calif., left one person dead and a dozen people injured early Saturday. A 17-year-old girl was shot in the face and wounded during a drive-by shooting in southwest Fresno Saturday night. A member of the security forces squadron of the 914th Airlift Wing was wounded when his gun accidentally discharged at the Niagara Falls, N.Y., Air Reserve Station Saturday night.

28-year-old Terrell A. Lesane was found outside a Daytona Beach, Fla., club suffering from gunshot wounds early Saturday; he died that evening. A 17-year-old boy was shot and critically wounded in a shooting in East Palo Alto, Calif., Saturday evening. Hakeem Powell, 33, was shot in the head and killed in a gang-related incident in Springfield, Mass., Saturday afternoon.

Three people were wounded and a man was killed in separate shootings in Newark, N.J., Saturday night. A 21-year-old woman was killed and two people were wounded in a shooting in downtown Oakland, Calif., early Saturday. A 20-year-old man was killed and a 28-year-old man is in critical condition in a shooting in a home in Syracuse, N.Y., early Saturday.

Mark Kelley, 49, was found lying in the street, dead of a gunshot wound near an apartment complex on the south side of Indianapolis, Ind., early Saturday. A man was shot and killed inside a car in northeast Miami-Dade County, Fla., Saturday afternoon. Two men, ages 20 and 21, were shot and wounded in Bolingbrook, Ill., early Saturday, sparking a police chase that resulted in the ramming of a police car and the arrest of three suspects.

A man was found lying on the ground by a bus stop, suffering from a gunshot wound in West Palm Beach, Fla., early Saturday. A 32-year-old man was shot and wounded in Rochester, N.Y., Saturday afternoon. Two people were shot and wounded during an argument at an apartment complex in southwest Houston, Tex., Saturday afternoon. 33-year-old Neldon Terry and 21-year-old Jeron Wilson were wounded in a shooting at a bar in Silverton, Ohio, early Saturday.

58-year-old Warren Philip Fisher was found shot dead inside his home in Norfolk, Va., early Saturday. John Conway Smith, 83, was shot and killed in Circleville, W.Va., Saturday, and his son, 54-year-old John William Smith, was charged with first degree murder. A man in his 20s was shot and critically injured during an argument over a woman in Glendale, Ariz., Saturday night.

41-year-old Jonathan Louis Stirens was found lying on the dirt driveway leading to his home, suffering from a gunshot wound to the stomach in Upland, Calif., Saturday morning, and his 21-year-old son is being sought. A 30-year-old man was shot and killed at a trailer park in Las Cruces, N.M., Saturday night, and his 19-year-old nephew was arrested.

17-year-old Kayla Elizabeth Williams was found dead of a gunshot wound in Kilgore, Tex., Saturday night. A man was shot and killed in Picayune, Miss., Saturday night. Two men, 21 and 22, and a 22-year-old woman were injured in a shooting near where dozens were camped out to buy a new Air Jordan sneaker in Wilmington, Del., early Saturday.

A 30-year-old man was shot and critically wounded in a drive-by shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., Saturday afternoon. In a separate shooting just before midnight in Buffalo, two or three men were shot on a porch. Jawann Hall, 28, was found shot several times and killed in an alley in Cleveland, Ohio, early Saturday. James Pergis Paulo, 29, was shot and killed and Alejandro Rosiles, 27, was shot and wounded in Wasco, Calif., late Saturday.

Sunday:

44-year-old Hallet Louis was shot and killed and her 4-year-old grandson suffered a gunshot wound to the head in a home in east New Orleans, La., Sunday morning. Four people were killed and 13 people were wounded in gun violence across Chicago, Ill., since Friday afternoon. A 16-year-old boy was found on a sidewalk with a gunshot wound to his face in the Mid-City area of New Orleans, La., Sunday night.

A 16-year-old girl was shot after a fight broke out at a party at an apartment complex in northeast Wichita, Kan., early Sunday. Three people were wounded in a shooting in an alley in south Albany, Ga., Sunday afternoon. Toren Waller, 23, was shot several times and killed during an argument on the south side of Richmond, Va., early Sunday.

A man was shot and killed at a Chevron station in College Park, Ga., early Sunday. 18-year-old Bazelais Beaudouin and 23-year-old Gerald Fleming were shot and killed in a Porsche in the parking lot of a west Orange County, Fla., shopping plaza early Sunday. A man was shot in the chest and critically wounded at the Booker T. Washington Housing Complex in Jersey City, N.J., early Sunday.

Keshawn Wilson, 17, a senior at Princeton High School, was shot and killed in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, Sunday afternoon. A woman in her 70s was shot and killed inside her northwest Bakersfield, Calif., home Sunday, and police believe a family member may be responsible. John Donaldson, 21, was found lying in a roadway, dead of gunshot wounds in Hattiesburg, Miss., Sunday morning.

A man was shot in the stomach and wounded in Greenville, S.C., Sunday, and police believe his uncle was responsible. 24 year-old Ti’yana Thompson was shot in the back and wounded when someone fired a handgun into a group of people in Cleveland, Ohio, early Sunday. One man was killed and five people were hurt after a shooting in the Kingsessing section of Philadelphia, Pa., Sunday evening.

A 30-year-old man was killed in a domestic shooting at an apartment complex on the west side of Indianapolis, Ind., Sunday morning. Leon Kelley, 63, was shot and killed after an argument in North Yarmouth, Me., Sunday afternoon. Four people were shot at a party in an apartment in Avondale, Ariz., early Sunday. Two men, 30 and 31, were wounded in a shooting in the Grant Hill neighborhood of San Diego, Calif., early Sunday.

According to Slate’s gun-death tracker, an estimated 9,040 people have died as a result of gun violence in America since the Newtown massacre on December 14, 2012.