D8 · Pillar D · Human Flourishing & Societal Infrastructure
Community violence intervention and firearm public health
A federal Community Violence Intervention fund with per-capita grants to municipalities and community organizations operating evidence-based models (Cure Violence, hospital-based intervention, focused deterrence). Full CDC firearm-injury research funding restored. Universal background checks with a defined process for private-sale transfers. Federal support for state extreme-risk-protection-order programs. Safe-storage standards with a compliance tax credit. Because the U.S. constitutional landscape does not permit an Australian-style buyback, D8 emphasizes CVI and public-health components where U.S. evidence is strongest.
- 10-year fiscal
- +$15BModest cost
- Implementation
- Years 1–3
- Middle class
- Positive
- Planetary
- Neutral
Trauma-care and productivity offsets not scored · Medium confidence
No new tax on the hold-harmless band. Benefits concentrate in communities with the highest firearm-injury rates.
No material climate effect.
Global precedent
Australia’s 1996 National Firearms Agreement is the most-studied population-scale precedent; Cure Violence and hospital-based CVI provide the strongest U.S. evidence. CDC research funding was restored in FY2020 on a bipartisan basis.
Lead mechanism
HHS; CDC; Department of Justice; Senate Judiciary; House Energy and Commerce.
Bipartisan framing
Conservative case
Evidence-based municipal CVI, research funding, and safe-storage incentives rather than a federal confiscation program.
Progressive case
Background checks, ERPO support, and a public-health approach to firearm injury.
CVI is bipartisan at the municipal level; CDC firearm-injury research funding was restored in FY2020.
Figures in this framework are illustrative directional estimates derived from publicly available data and conventional Congressional Budget Office budget-window logic. They are not official CBO scores. Any provision adopted from this framework would require formal CBO scoring before legislative consideration. This document is a policy white paper, not an introduced bill.