Posted on 04/24/2018 7:36:33 AM PDT by rktman
Every year, Americans use guns to defend themselves more than 2 million times, according to an unpublished study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that focused on data gathered in 1996, 1997 and 1998.
The findings show that use of guns for self-defense happens more frequently than criminal use of firearms.
During his Monday broadcast, talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh said its typical that the CDC didnt go public with the eye-opening findings.
The CDC figures this does not further the leftist agenda, Limbaugh said, so they keep it secret, but it has been uncovered.
Since the 1990s, Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck and partner Marc Gertz have claimed as many as 2.2 million Americans use firearms to defend themselves every year. While critics have claimed Klecks estimates were too high, he has frequently stated that they provide no scientific evidence to counter his findings.
Now its revealed that the unpublished CDC study in the 1990s found 2.46 million defensive gun uses, or DGUs, per year.
Kleck provides the following summary of the CDC findings:
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
NON print:
http://www.wnd.com/2018/04/cdc-unpublished-study-over-2-million-defensive-gun-uses-every-year/
Another take on the same info from Guy Benson:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2018/04/23/defensive-gun-uses-study-n2473447
Unpublished?
Just one of dem dar...coincidences, I’m sure.........
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@PlametWTF?
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LOL! Probably, well, I guess I’m not sure when the ruling for the cdc to NOT study firearms issues was put in place so maybe it wasn’t published due to that or as you said, to hide the troof. Lazy this morning so if somebody knows when that ruling was put in place, maybe they’ll post it.
Thats the best thing a pistol is for - self defense!
CDC obviously conducted the study and should have published their findings. That they did not is suggestive. Has the Principal Investigator spoken?
“Inequality” appears to an odd interpretation of these findings. Suggests Social Justice is the lens used to view the findings.
Americans use guns to defend themselves.
It’s why we have them thank you founding fathers.
2 million is nothing compared to the number of crimes that NEVER take place due to an armed populace.
Or, to fight your way back to the rifle you should not have put down in the first place.
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