Following the Las Vegas shooting in October 2017 , Klobuchar was one of twenty-four senators to sign a letter to National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins espousing the view that it was critical the NIH " dedicate a portion of its resources to the public health consequences of gun violence " at a time when 93 Americans die per day from gun-related fatalities and noted that the Dickey Amendment did not prohibit objective , scientific inquiries into shooting death prevention
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2017 Las Vegas shooting
Political positions of Amy Klobuchar