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Posted on 08/28/2026 5:48:38 AM PDT by Twotone
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) restored information regarding studies of the use of firearms for self-defense on its website, reversing a move made during the Biden administration.
CDC took down information about the studies during the Biden administration after a lobbying campaign by anti-Second Amendment groups backed by Democratic Illinois Sen. Richard Durbin, according to emails obtained by The Reload. The restoration of the studies to the CDC site prompted criticism from anti-Second Amendment advocates.
“It is the politically motivated laundering of disinformation that has become a hallmark of the Trump administration’s approach to all scientific inquiry, and gun violence is no exception,” Devin Hughes of GVPedia told The Trace, an outlet supported by anti-Second Amendment billionaire Michael Bloomberg.
CDC did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“Estimates of defensive gun use vary depending on the questions asked, populations studied, timeframe, and other factors related to study design,” the CDC said on its website, while linking to a report summarizing surveys regarding defensive gun use. “The report Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence indicates a range of 60,000 to 2.5 million defensive gun uses each year.”
In 1996, Congress prohibited the CDC from underwriting advocacy for gun control following studies that claimed guns in the home were more likely to kill people in the home than to be used for self-defense. Pro-Second Amendment groups cited bias against firearms by some of the researchers.
“My own view on gun control is simple,” Deborah Prothrow-Stith, a public health professor at Harvard in the 1990s, wrote according to Reason magazine. “I hate guns and cannot imagine why anybody would want to own one. If I had my way, guns for sport would be registered, and all other guns would be banned.”
CDC also came under fire for its efforts to promote censorship during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, America First Legal (AFL) released documents showing the CDC working with Twitter, Facebook and Google to “censor free speech and promote Biden administration propaganda,” the group said.
The CDC allegedly sent Twitter a chart showing posts that allegedly had misinformation and held “Be On the LookOut” meetings with the social media company to discuss what the government agency claimed was “misinformation.” The CDC also sent Twitter some recommended language involving the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), according to the documents.
Facebook and the CDC also coordinated to address alleged misinformation, with the CDC reportedly sending links to the social media giant to posts that contained what the government agency called misinformation. Facebook also reportedly gave the CDC $15 million in advertising credits.
Google and the CDC also worked together, with the technology company agreeing to boost the CDC’s vaccine page. The companies also coordinated fact-checking to address “misinformation” about vaccines and “infodemiology.”
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Now if they will just start exposing the Covid and related mRNA “vaccine” cover up.
Never trust anyone with a hyphen in their name.
Especially if their name sounds like “pro throw sh—”!
Especially if their last name sounds like “pro throw sh—”!
Nothing from the CDC is worth crap. Another alphabet operation with a nefarious agenda. Since they copulated with Fauci, they have zero credibility. #FCDC
Basically per the left, only trust the science they agree with and only be allowed to hear information they approve of.
You get the $cience you pay for.
My guess is that use of firearms for self-defense, such as brandishing a gun, happens a LOT more that these stats reveal.
Many people never report this, and who can blame them?, especially in a gun-hostile state like California or New York.
So according to the anti Gun nuts, hard quantified data is now disinformation?
I DO NOT NEED THE CDC TO TELL ME WHEN I NEED TO USE A GUN FOR SELF-DEFENSE.
THIS IS NONSENSE.
The story is interesting in that it showed the lying by omission that is typical MO for despicable rat Administration.
The story is interesting in that it showed the lying by omission that is typical MO for a despicable rat Administration.
BeijingBiden changes the reporting laws. This affected CDC and the FBI. States were no longer required to report crimes and they were allowed to re-define what = crime.
This is how blue cities were able to lie about decreasing crime — they suppressed the data. Same with mailin ballots.
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