Posted on 12/16/2022 10:42:52 AM PST by Twotone
The lobbying campaign spanned months and culminated with a private meeting between CDC officials and three advocates last summer, a collection of emails obtained by The Reload show. Introductions from the White House and Senator Dick Durbin’s (D., Ill.) office helped the advocates reach top officials at the agency after their initial attempt to reach out went unanswered. The advocates focused their complaints on the CDC’s description of its review of studies that estimated defensive gun uses (DGU) happen between 60,000 and 2.5 million times per year in the United States–attacking criminologist Gary Kleck’s work establishing the top end of the range.
“[T]hat 2.5 Million number needs to be killed, buried, dug up, killed again and buried again,” Mark Bryant, one of the attendees, wrote to CDC officials after their meeting. “It is highly misleading, is used out of context and I honestly believe it has zero value – even as an outlier point in honest DGU discussions.”
Bryant, who runs the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), argued Kleck’s estimate has been damaging to the political prospects of passing new gun restrictions and should be eliminated from the CDC’s website.
“And while that very small study by Gary Kleck has been debunked repeatedly by everyone from all sides of this issue [even Kleck] it still remains canon by gun rights folks and their supporting politicians and is used as a blunt instrument against gun safety regulations every time there is a state or federal level hearing,” he wrote in the same email. “Put simply, in the time that study has been published as ‘a CDC Study’ gun violence prevention policy has ground to a halt, in no small part because of the misinformation that small study provided.”
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Has it? Usually, in this context, debunked means proven true.
What do weapon have to do with disease? The CDC is totally political and fails at its primary mission. The CDC needs to be shuttered and every employee banned from working in government at any level. There needs to be consequences.
Apparently Kleck himself said there were problems with it. But I remember a story that the FBI had done its OWN study years ago & came to the conclusion that there were at minimum a million defensive gun uses each year.
Of course…cdc=commie directed censorship…total joke of an agency with an agenda…like most of them…
I’d say a million defensive gun uses each year is very plausible.
67,000 DGU annually between 2007-2011 cf. “Guns and Crime: The Data Don’t Lie”, Mark Gius · 2016 3 citations.
cf. “Stopping Power: Why 70 Million Americans Own Guns. Neil Shulman · 1994, p.38: 645,000 DGU every year.
cf. “Targeting Guns: Firearms and Their Control”, books.google.com › books
Gary Kleck · 2017 = Offensive handgun use [IOGU] in 1993 was 800,000; evidence indicates that defensive gun use [DGU] was 3 to 5 times higher than OGU. [ search googlebooks “defensive gun statistics”-— 15 pages cited in this book]...NCVS data DGU figures [82,000per year] can be found on pp.7-8, “Gun Control Legislation”, Krouse, Wm., 2010, Congressional Research Service...
So the argument is that Kleck’s earlier estimate is LOW?
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