What Do CDC’s Surveys Say About the Frequency of Defensive Gun Uses?

[ATCclears]

What Do CDC's Surveys Say About the Frequency of Defensive Gun Uses? by Gary Kleck :: SSRN

Abstract
In 1996, 1997, and 1998, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conducted large-scale national surveys asking about defensive gun use (DGU). They never released the findings, or even acknowledged they had studied the topic. I obtained the unpublished raw data and computed the prevalence of DGU. CDC's findings indicated that an average of 2.46 million U.S. adults used a gun for self-defense in each of the years from 1996 through 1998 – almost exactly confirming the estimate for 1992 of Kleck and Gertz (1995). Possible reasons for CDC's suppression of these findings are discussed.

Keywords: Defensive Gun Use, Surveys, CDC

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[L84Cabo]

Further confirmed by their 2013 study. Strange how the Left is always whining about how the CDC is not permitted to do gun research.

CDC Gun Research Backfires on Obama - Guns & Ammo

 

[po18guy]

I find it distinctly odd that the Center for DISEASE Control would suppress information regarding the CURE.

Not to mention preventative medicine.

 

[HB of CJ]

As a now retired RN my best educated hunch is that The Center For Disease Control has been for a long time pretty much been taken over by the political pundits. Do they have a political agenda? In my humble opinion ... YES!

Is that bad or good? Depends. Some very infectious sexually transmitted diseases have pretty much been swept under the rug. Strange that that happens when other traditional well known old bad diseases still get heavy billing.

Just me.

 

[ma96782]

Someone asks and my response would be.....

"Statute of limitations isn't up so.....Nonya."

Aloha, Mark

 

[NW Backpacker]

" CDC's findings indicated that an average of 2.46 million U.S. adults used a gun for self-defense in each of the years from 1996 through 1998....."

More like 20 or 30 or 40 times that number of people have a gun locked and loaded for self-defense, although most will never need to pull the trigger. Just last night I hear a thump downstairs. I grab my gun and go down to investigate. Nothing down there. Didn't use the gun, but I was ready to if needed.

Every night people in the USA sleep soundly because they have a gun for self-defense if needed. How many crimes don't happen because criminals know many of us are armed? That would be a large number.