The CDC Deletes Defensive-gun-use Statistics

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The CDC Killed a Gun Study
by MARK CHESNUT February 24, 2023

Reports that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had been caught red-handed deleting defensive-gun-use statistics from its website at the request of anti-gun “partners” have led to congressional action.

This story was broken by Stephen Gutowski at The Reload. Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA), he received a series of emails showing that three gun-control activists worked closely with CDC officials to remove references to criminologist Gary Kleck’s important 1992 study that showed Americans use firearms for self-defense up to 2.5 million times a year.

Apparently, the 2.5 million figure was the sticking point, as it makes it more difficult for gun-control activists to argue the inaccurate claim that guns are seldom used for self-defense. Mark Bryant, head of the Gun Violence Archive, and two others sought the removal of that figure from the CDC website.

“That 2.5 million number needs to be killed, buried, dug up, killed again and buried again,” Bryant wrote in an email to CDC officials after their in-person 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.”

Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time that the CDC has suppressed numbers on defensive gun usage. As America’s 1st Freedom contributor Dave Kopel reported last year, in the late 1990s, the CDC conducted its own DGU study. The results indicated there are likely more than a million such uses each year; however, the study was never released and was kept secret until, decades later, someone leaked it.

Of course, the actual number of defensive gun uses can only by measured with surveys. The most-recent data from the 2021 National Firearms Survey, conducted under the supervision of Georgetown professor William English, estimated 1.67 million DGUs annually.

The CDC is not the only federal agency that committed such a breach of trust last year. Earlier in 2022, the FBI grossly underreported the number of times armed citizens had stopped mass public shootings.
 
So why would a government suppress or delete such information?
Hmmm...The same ones that want to take away it's citizen's rights, some would say.
And leave them totally at the will of those in charge.
Have we ever seen this before in a history book or have they erased or destroyed those as well?

Normal family structure, is a free thinker, questions those ruling over them, believes in a god or is religious and has the mindset of defending those he loves.
Must destroy those citizens at all cost!
 
The CDC Killed a Gun Study
by MARK CHESNUT February 24, 2023

Reports that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had been caught red-handed deleting defensive-gun-use statistics from its website at the request of anti-gun “partners” have led to congressional action.

This story was broken by Stephen Gutowski at The Reload. Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA), he received a series of emails showing that three gun-control activists worked closely with CDC officials to remove references to criminologist Gary Kleck’s important 1992 study that showed Americans use firearms for self-defense up to 2.5 million times a year.

Apparently, the 2.5 million figure was the sticking point, as it makes it more difficult for gun-control activists to argue the inaccurate claim that guns are seldom used for self-defense. Mark Bryant, head of the Gun Violence Archive, and two others sought the removal of that figure from the CDC website.

“That 2.5 million number needs to be killed, buried, dug up, killed again and buried again,” Bryant wrote in an email to CDC officials after their in-person 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.”

Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time that the CDC has suppressed numbers on defensive gun usage. As America’s 1st Freedom contributor Dave Kopel reported last year, in the late 1990s, the CDC conducted its own DGU study. The results indicated there are likely more than a million such uses each year; however, the study was never released and was kept secret until, decades later, someone leaked it.

Of course, the actual number of defensive gun uses can only by measured with surveys. The most-recent data from the 2021 National Firearms Survey, conducted under the supervision of Georgetown professor William English, estimated 1.67 million DGUs annually.

The CDC is not the only federal agency that committed such a breach of trust last year. Earlier in 2022, the FBI grossly underreported the number of times armed citizens had stopped mass public shootings.
Because the CDC is really not doing what they were originally designed to do, it should be disbanded. They're only a tool to be used by the radical left, the same goes for the ATF. Ronald Reagan got it right, we don't need more government, what we need is less.
 
The Narrative and nothing BUT the Narrative.

Harmless books being rewritten. That's some real F451 shit right there.

good article, but, not sure if there is any solution there.

as of cdc - they still killed the data and did pretty much what they always do. pinkhaired creatures are winning.
 
Shoulder shrug.

Look at the January Employment data. You have to wonder (and I'm NOT the conspiracy theorist around here) if the DOL decided to doctor up the results for the SotU. ZipRucroooter earnings showed that job openings are CRASHING. There is conflicting data between what the DOL and Wall Street say.

This isn't hte first time. Look at month-to-month energy CPI data. It's BS. They use one or two categories to force the whole index to where they want.

Look at the U/E rate circa Jan 2009-2017. There was NO questions that the # of jobs lost in 08/09 never showed the massive U/E # it should have - because you can't embarrass Bama. Then jobs data improved and they had a hard time adjusting it. So the U/E rate looked SILLY low by 2017. They hadn't made up their "error" in 8 years.

I'm not saying it's a conspiracy, but humans run these departments. Humans, by and large, lack integrity. They will lie if they believe their own lie.
 
Because the CDC is really not doing what they were originally designed to do, it should be disbanded. They're only a tool to be used by the radical left, the same goes for the ATF. Ronald Reagan got it right, we don't need more government, what we need is less.
You're correct but it will never happen without a violent Revolution. Read Mike Pompeo's new book, "NEVER GIVE AN INCH" to get an idea how entrenched the swamp is and how they try to thwart any policies they disagree with or they feel threatens their existance.
 
Because the CDC is really not doing what they were originally designed to do, it should be disbanded. They're only a tool to be used by the radical left, the same goes for the ATF. Ronald Reagan got it right, we don't need more government, what we need is less.
CDC is just another political arm of the DNC, period.
 
Just imagine all of these Coward Police officers who are not putting handcuffs on the Real Criminals within the CDC & FDA.... government etc

They would rather harrass teenagers & other low level targets...

I lost respect for police in the last several years... ( 2 relatives with the police quit & retired in the past 5)
 
Just imagine all of these Coward Police officers who are not putting handcuffs on the Real Criminals within the CDC & FDA.... government etc

They would rather harrass teenagers & other low level targets...

I lost respect for police in the last several years... ( 2 relatives with the police quit & retired in the past 5)
I have lost ALL respect for the medical community since the Wuhan Flu panic. They caved to govt. oppression without any pushback, what happened to follow the science?
Cops are govt. employees who follow orders from Politicians that we the people elect. Blame the voters and Pols who write/pass the laws Cops have to enforce.
 
what happened to follow the science?
what you got was exactly what science is.

science will dictate to exterminate 80% of population preemptively in order to preserve 20%, so the population would later recover.

a human decency and morals will tell to try to save the most as it progresses. so i would be very careful to listen and trust the 'science' blindly.
 
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