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Gun-control advocates successfully convinced the Center For Disease Control (CDC) to erase key data on defensive gun use (DGU) in America because it was a barrier to enacting tougher gun laws, a new report by The Reload<\/em> <\/a>reveals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Per the CDC<\/a>, a defensive gun use is \u201cgenerally defined as the use of a firearm to protect and defend oneself, family, other people, and\/or property against crime or victimization.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The number of annual DGUs is a controversial topic because there is no perfect way to track that information.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To explicate, most DGUs don\u2019t involve actual gunfire, the mere presence of a firearm is enough to de-escalate the situation or send the perp running and, in such cases, police reports aren\u2019t always filed.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This means criminologists have to rely on public surveys, along with police reports and media coverage of DGUs, to get an approximation of their frequency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEE ALSO: Suppressed CDC Survey Indicates Over 2 Million Defensive Gun Uses Per Year\u2026 in 1998<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Gary Kleck, a criminologist at Florida State University, put forth a study in the ’90s that concluded, based on a national survey, that in an average year 2.23 million Americans use a firearm<\/a> to defend themselves or their families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other side of the coin, the Bureau of Justice Statistics found<\/a> that there were about 300,000 crimes involving firearms in 2008. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Defensive use of guns by crime victims is a common occurrence, although the exact number remains disputed (Cook and Ludwig, 1996; Kleck, 2001a). Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million (Kleck, 2001a), in the context of about 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008 (BJS, 2010).<\/p>\n
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2013. Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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If Kleck\u2019s estimates are accurate, it would mean that for every one bad guy to use a gun in the commission of a crime that year, seven good guys used one in defense of themselves or their families.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The notion that responsibly armed citizens defend themselves every day in this country is a death knell to the gun prohibitionist lobby.  The fact that it could be at a ratio of 7 to 1 (good guys vs. bad guys) is even more infuriating.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEE ALSO: CDC: Gun Homicide Rates Spiked 35% in 2020<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This explains why gun-control activists were so hellbent to scrub Kleck\u2019s data off the CDC website<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As The Reload<\/em> reported, with the help of the White House and Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin, a group of gun controllers was allowed to meet with the CDC in 2021 to discuss getting rid of the estimates.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[T]hat 2.5 Million number needs to be killed, buried, dug up, killed again and buried again,\u201d Mark Bryant, one of the attendees, wrote to CDC officials after their meeting. \u201cIt is highly misleading, is used out of context and I honestly believe it has zero value \u2013 even as an outlier point in honest DGU discussions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Video here for those asking. My brother just recorded with his phone so bear with background noise. Dont know if a regular clip is out there. https:\/\/t.co\/7vCUu0VrjC<\/a><\/p>— Kostas Moros (@MorosKostas) December 16, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote> \n\n\n\n

Bryant, who curates the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), went on to spell out the problem as it relates to the gun-ban agenda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd while that very small study by Gary Kleck has been debunked repeatedly by everyone from all sides of this issue [even Kleck] it still remains canon by gun rights folks and their supporting politicians and is used as a blunt instrument against gun safety regulations every time there is a state or federal level hearing,\u201d he wrote. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEE ALSO: Major Errors in FBI\u2019s \u2018Active Shooter\u2019 Report Perpetuates Narrative that Good Guys w\/ Guns Don\u2019t Stop Bad Guys with Guns<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPut simply, in the time that study has been published as \u2018a CDC Study\u2019 gun violence prevention policy has ground to a halt, in no small part because of the misinformation that small study provided,\u201d Bryant added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kleck has not retracted his research.  He stands by his numbers.  He also accused the CDC of engaging in \u201cblatant censorship\u201d when it removed his DGU estimates from its website this year.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCDC is just aligning itself with the gun-control advocacy groups,\u201d Kleck told The Reload<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s just saying: \u2018we are their tool, and we will do their bidding.\u2019 And that\u2019s not what a government agency should do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you visit the CDC website today, you will not find estimates on DGUs like you would in years past.  Instead, you\u2019ll see this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Any reasonable person would conclude that the CDC’s now obfuscating the truth with respect to DGUs. No longer is it apparent that good guys with guns defend themselves, at the very least, tens of thousands of times each year. Gun-control advocates got exactly what they wanted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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