The White House asked the Centers for Disease Control “to research the causes and prevention of gun violence.”
• “Whether gun restrictions reduce firearm-related violence is an unresolved issue.”
• “Studies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies.”
• One “body of research” (Kleck and Gertz, 1995) cited by the study found “estimated annual gun use for self-defense” to be “up to 2.5 million incidents, suggesting that self-defense can be an important crime deterrent.”
• “There is empirical evidence that gun turn-in programs are ineffective.”
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All well and good, but what about the rights of burglars, muggers and rapists to a safe work environment?
aaahhh, yes 10, I just fell off the left side of my chair laffing at that one:-))))
Obama asked the CDC?
So gun ownership is a disease?
Why don’t they work on something important, like a vaccine against Progressivism…
All they have to do is a literature search – CDC already did this study a few years ago, and there’s a TON of literature that disproves the liberal arguments for gun control. More twisting in the wind from the OFraud Party.
This is about money. The CDC got their budget cut by Newt Gingrich’s 1994 Congress, and they’ve been afraid to get back into the anti-gun propaganda biz ever since. Looks like Barry is making some big donors happy here.
Oh, and bury your guns. CDC is not going to “find” anything good about them.
If guns weren’t useful for self-defense the police wouldn’t carry them and the Secret Service would protect the president with swords, right?
now you have given them another idea to take away our guns!!
It’s all about power.
Individuals exercising their inalienable right to self defence are naturally perceived as a direct threat to the supremacy of the state.
So … the WHouse neglected to give them the list of forgone (correct) conclusions?
Well said and Johnny sums it up well.