Posted on 04/26/2018 3:12:10 PM PDT by marktwain
Gary Kleck, the award-winning criminologist who documented significant levels of defensive gun use (DGU) in American society, has uncovered research done by the CDC that strongly corroborates his findings. Kleck and Gertz's seminal study was done in 1993, presented in 1994, and published in 1995.
The CDC research was done in 1996, 1997, and 1998, but was never publicized.
The BRFSS surveys are high-quality telephone surveys of enormous probability sample of U.S. adults, asking about a wide range of health-related topics. Those that addressed DGUasked more people about this topic than any other surveys conducted before or since. For example, the 1996 survey asked the DGU question of 5,484 people. The next-largest number questioned about DGU was 4,977 by Kleck and Gertz (1995), and sample sizes were much smaller in all the rest of surveys on the topic (Kleck 2001).
The wording of the DGU question in the BRFSS surveys was also excellent, addressing many problems with the wording of the DGU questions used in other surveys. The exact wording was:
“During the last 12 months, have you confronted another person with a firearm, even if you did not fire it, to protect yourself, your property, or someone else?”
Respondents had previously been instructed not to report firearm uses associated with an occupation that “requires and authorizes you to use a firearm.” Thus, the question excluded uses by police and others with firearm-related jobs. Further, the question appropriately excluded uses against animals
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Title should have been “The Center for Disease Control suppress three large ....”
What I wrote in #3 is not all that relevant, though. The CDC would have done the same under other administrations, too.
Many anti-Second-Amendment efforts have been bipartisan until recently, especially at state and local levels. It might be more attributable to a multilevel Separation of Powers imbalance and political participation imbalance. Too many people have been fooled too easily by rumors and conspiracy tales into avoiding participation.
The lesson is that we should get involved in politics (running our government) to secure and advance our freedoms.
No, the CD didn’t fail to report it. They made a deliberate choice not to report it. There’s a difference.
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