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.
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?
I have never had to pay for it.
Weird. Now they want $31!
But, if you look, there is a blue bar that says, in small letters, Download Free PDF. But you have to sign in as a guest or create an account to do so.
Scuba diving buddies.
Exactly so.
The one who didn’t agree is dead...................
Happy to see you did NOT SAY—Holding your breath...
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