Posted on 03/05/2018 10:03:13 AM PST by OregonRancher
President Obama commissioned a $10 million study to look at crime deterrents in January 2013, and what it says about gun control blows everything liberals and Democrats have ever said about guns out of the water, reports CNS News.
“Self-defense can be an important crime deterrent,” concluded a study by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) mandated via executive order by President Barack Obama. The study’s findings also question the effectiveness of gun-control measures.
CNS News reports that the study’s findings include:
Gun-use is the safest of studied “self-protective strategies,” Suicide accounts for most firearm deaths, Felons who use guns very seldom obtain their guns by stealing them, and There is no evidence that gun restrictions reduce gun violence.
“Studies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns (i.e., incidents in which a gun was ‘used’ by the crime victim in the sense of attacking or threatening an offender) have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies,” the CDC study, entitled “Priorities For Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence,” states.
Researchers also found that the majority of firearm deaths are from suicide, not homicide.
“Between the years 2000 and 2010, firearm-related suicides significantly outnumbered homicides for all age groups, annually accounting for 61 percent of the more than 335,600 people who died from firearm-related violence in the United States,” the study reports.
“Most felons report obtaining the majority of their firearms from informal sources,” adds the report, while “stolen guns account for only a small percentage of guns used by convicted criminals.”
The report expresses uncertainty about gun control measures, stating that “whether gun restrictions reduce firearm-related violence is an unresolved issue,” and that there is no evidence “that passage of right-to-carry laws decrease or increase violence crime.” It also stated that proposed “gun turn-in programs are ineffective.”
Instead, researchers proposed gun safety technologies such as “external locking devices and biometric systems” to reduce firearm-related deaths.
Perhaps the Democrats need to look at their own studies before their try to ban assault rifles or semi-automatic weapons and instead look at the situation from a common sense standpoint.
“If the criminals aren’t stealing the guns then how are they getting them?”
Straw buyers, criminals that haven’t yet been convicted of a felony.
“Self-defense can be an important crime deterrent”
Especially an important deterrent against the government.
The meme should be “Gun control - a failure for over a century!”
IS EVERYONE STUPID ?!?
.
EVERY GUN SUBJECT
BEING DISCUSSED RIGHT NOW
WAS DISCUSSED AND SETTLED
WITH THE GUN CONTROL ACT OF 1968
.
IN ONLY FIFTY YEARS
HISTORY HAS BEEN FORGOTTEN
AND BEING ACTED OUT
AS IF IT NEVER HAPPENED !
Just like “Restraining orders” don’t restrain anyone from doing anything, if they so choose.
Bttt.
5.56mm
"Liberating" it from the body of a gang-banger they just shot.
That is either it or one similar. Same authors for sure.
Is why a lot of women now carry. Restraining order’s are a joke.
Good question.
This is from the study:
But prohibited individuals may obtain firearms without background checks through unlicensed sellers at gun shows and private sales or through straw purchases.
While I think that criminals would obviously begin stealing guns if the methods above weren't available, this is troubling.
This gives the left ammo (if you will) to call for "Comprehensive Background Checks". These checks, of course, will lead to a more developed system of gun registration than they already have in place.
Registration leads directly to confiscation.
While I believe that guns should be easily available to those with good intentions, what is a good way to weed out the bad guys?
I guess that's the million dollar question.
bkmk
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BOOKbump
Sell 500 bucks worth of rock on the corner and your covered. Probly get a gun in trade.
This irks me to no end. Why in the wide world of sports does the ebook of a document we the People paid for cost $31?
When was this study first released?
Oh yeah, I remember that one.
99 out of 100 criminals agree! they prefer unarmed victims........
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Cleverly worded but obviously untrue.
The claim that 1 out of 100 would prefer to face an armed victim is obviously there for rhetorical reasons effect.
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