CDC Buried Data Supporting Defensive Use of Firearms

The New American ^ | 24 April 2018 | Bob Adelmann

[WisconsinRep]

Gary Kleck, a criminologist now retired from Florida State University, was likely astonished to learn that his controversial study, The National Self-Defense Survey, was accurate after all. He and FSU fellow professor Marc Gertz concluded, based on their carefully-crafted surveys conducted in 1993, that there were more than 2.2 million defensive gun uses (DGU) each year in the United States. The results were presented in 1994, published in 1995, and have been incessantly attacked by the anti-gun movement ever since. His conclusions didn’t fit the anti-gun narrative that guns are used in crimes far more than in self-defense and therefore private ownership must be abolished.

Kleck just learned that almost immediately after the publication of his study, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a federal agency that receives more than $11 billion of taxpayer money every year, conducted its own study of the matter. It conducted three separate studies, in fact, and each of them came to the same conclusion as Kleck and Gertz: Indeed, about 2.5 million Americans use guns to defend themselves or their families every year.

But the CDC studies were never published.

It would have infuriated the powers-that-be in the Clinton administration, and so the results were buried.

[WisconsinRep]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducted three studies in the 1990s showing that about 2.5 million Americans use guns in self-defense every year. But the studies were never published.

[speedracerx]

bump.

[rktman]

I know. Different headers, LOL!:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3649969/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3649987/posts

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2018/04/23/defensive-gun-uses-study-n2473447

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/23/health/gun-deaths-in-men-by-state-study/index.html

[gunnyg]

and related to “disease control” because...?????

[ealgeone]

During the Clintonian years.....ummmm....wonder if they were ordered not to publish them.

[rktman]

LOL! Yeah, don’t remember when exactly but some one put out legislation that they would NOT do studies on firearms. They probably don’t care.

[circlecity]

And we’re supposed to believe that any future study on “gun violence” by the CDC would be objective. The left has been pushing hard to change the law to allow for such a study. Although, I have no idea what the issue of criminals using guns has to do with infectious diseases.

[BlueLancer]

and related to “disease control” because...?????

Sickness and death arising from a sudden lead imbalance in the body ...

[gunnyg]

More likely, cuz “they” have unlimited funds to blow on bs operations by bs gubmint stooges...namely our $/tax booty!
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[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Lots of things from the past have been buried. here is a link to a suppressed report on THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS published by the US Government back in 1982. It is almost impossible to find a COMPLETE copy on line.

Most leave out the response by various pro and anti-gun lobbying groups which make up most of the later (missing) half of the book.

I ordered a complete copy from the US Government printing house back around 1983. Still have it.

https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2015R1/Downloads/CommitteeMeetingDocument/68101

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Sudden Chronic Lead Poisoning Syndrome. It is often terminal.

[gunnyg]

1999, huh?

I got online w/a WebTV in 98...not sure if I was online @FR then or lurking only...or wot my screen/name was then...several BBs,Sites, etc. Always used DickG, then GunnyG as now. Got outta San Diego about then.
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