Posted April 23, 2018 6:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

When anti-gun activists talk about gun research, they argue that the law prevents the CDC from doing anything of the sort. The truth is, the law only prevents the CDC from doing research designed to promote gun control. They can do research, it just has to be unbiased research.

Well, it turns out that about the time that law was passed–1996, for those playing at home–the CDC asked a question that’s been the topic of discussion for some time. Namely, how often is a gun used in self-defense?

It seems they got the answer, then sat on it. What it reveals, however, is interesting (emphasis mine).

Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck conducted the most thorough previously known survey data on the question in the 1990s. His study, which has been harshly disputed in pro-gun-control quarters, indicated that there were more than 2.2 million such defensive uses of guns (DGUs) in America a year.

Now Kleck has unearthed some lost CDC survey data on the question. The CDC essentially confirmed Kleck’s results. But Kleck didn’t know about that until now, because the CDC never reported what it found.

Kleck’s new paper—”What Do CDC’s Surveys Say About the Frequency of Defensive Gun …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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