Posted on 12/15/2022 8:56:00 PM PST by bitt
The CDC commissioned the gun use study itself, but removed it last year
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reportedly removed statistics on defensive gun use in the U.S. following pressure from gun control advocates.
The stats sourced from a CDC-commissioned study finding that instances of defensive gun use occur between 60,000 and 2.5 million times per year. References to that study were deleted from the site following private meetings with gun control advocates in 2021, emails obtained and published by The Reload show.
"[T]hat 2.5 Million number needs to be killed, buried, dug up, killed again and buried again," Mark Bryant, executive director of the Gun Violence Archive, wrote to the CDC in one of the emails. "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."
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They fear truth.
The Communist Purge Continues To Grow Exponentially & Nothing Is Being Done About It!
The stinking communist bastards leave no evil stone unturned...
That's about as precise as a modern vote count.
60,000 to 2,000,000? That’s a pretty wide range.
[They fear truth.]
Oh, just like the American media
CPRC has the real information:
An article with the REAL truth!
EDC is a GOOD THING!
Why does the CDC have anything to do with guns?
Another mass shooting incident thwarted today.
Amazon worker shot, colleague returns fire killing suspect outside Arizona facility: Police
why anyone trusts the CDC on anything is beyond me.
Unfortunately, gun control advocates often present an incomplete picture, and don’t look at how many deaths are prevented by lawful gun ownership. Defensive gun use is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of crime prevention from lawful gun ownership, because many crimes are prevented simply because the would-be perps suspect their desired target might be packing heat. Sort of like an armed guard at a bank, it’s hard measure how many crimes are prevented due to the deterrent effect before defensive gun use even happens.
The three main activities of the federal government: borrowing, spending and lying.
And folks wonder why the CDC has been accused of lobbying for gun control. They and the AMA are in the pocket of gun control advocates.
Maybe the head of the CDC needs to sit in front of a House Budget hearing and answer questions about how “scientific” and “politically neutral” the Agency really is and if the House of Representatives should line out certain portions of the CDC budget as they have in the past?
Who authorized the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to do studies on guns?
Who authorized the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to do studies on guns?
The CDC is a WORTHLESS, LYING, UnConstitutional agency that must be shut down.
I’m confused about what the CDC has to do with guns and/or gun violence (besides many of the population wouldn’t mind sending some violence their way).
I must have been reading your mind.
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