CDC Study: Use of Firearms For Self-Defense is ‘Important Crime Deterrent’

[GGJohn]

By Alissa Tabirian | July 17, 2013 | 10:54 AM EDT


(CNSNews.com) – “Self-defense can be an important crime deterrent,”says a new report by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The $10 million study was commissioned by President Barack Obama as part of 23 executive orders he signed in January.
“Studies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns (i.e., incidents in which a gun was ‘used’ by the crime victim in the sense of attacking or threatening an offender) have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies,” the CDC study, entitled “Priorities For Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence,” states.

The report, which notes that “ violent crimes, including homicides specifically, have declined in the past five years,” also pointed out that “some firearm violence results in death, but most does not.” In fact, the CDC report said, most incidents involving the discharge of firearms do not result in a fatality.

“In 2010, incidents in the U.S. involving firearms injured or killed more than 105,000 Americans, of which there were twice as many nonfatal firearm-related injuries (73,505) than deaths.”

The White House unveiled a plan in January that included orders to the CDC to “conduct research on the causes and prevention of gun violence.” According to the White House report, “Research on gun violence is not advocacy; it is critical public health research that gives all Americans information they need.”

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/cdc-study-use-firearms-self-defense-important-crime-deterrent

I know this article is almost 2 years old, but it's a very interesting read.
It would seem to debunk gun control orgs. that resisting a crime against ones self will lead to injury or death of the crime victim.

Bet the VPC, Brady org. MAIG, Everytown, etc., didn't like this study at all, it went against their meme.

[tularetom]

1. In other news the sky is blue and water is wet

Ten million bucks to tell us something we already knew?

[GGJohn]

2. Yup.

I think the gun control orgs. pressured Pres. Obama to commission that study hoping for a different results, imagine their surprise and outrage when it didn't match their rhetoric.

[virginia mountainman]

3. How dare you post such NRA filth here!!

Everyone knows that the CDC is just a front organisation for gun manufacturers wanting to get rich.


Just in case its not clear -->

[ileus]

4. but...buttttt guns kill people.

[pablo_marmol]

5. This smells fishy to me......especially given the timing.

The CDC has been consistently dishonest and agenda-driven - even to the point of falsifying citations to support bogus claims. Did they lose their public funding for gun violence research just prior to this announcement? At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, I have to wonder if this "finding" is an attempt to position themselves for renewed funding -- at which time they'll continue to produce "studies" unsupported by facts. No level of dishonesty and deviousness coming from The Controllers would surprise me at this point.