The CDC hid data it collected proving Americans use guns for self defense in large numbers. CDC, in Surveys It Never Bothered Making Public, Provides More Evidence that Plenty of Americans Innocently Defend Themselves with Guns
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OP's cite:
Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck conducted the most thorough previously known survey data on the question in the 1990s.His study, which has been harshly disputed in pro-gun-control quarters, indicated that there were more than 2.2 million such defensive uses of guns (DGUs) in America a year.
Kleck's Feb 2018 study, quote
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)...unquote
Kleck's study references numerous other author's studies in his work and
And to assure his previous results agree put in an unexplained 'adjustment' calculations to bring results into the range he believes is credible.
Further, Kleck's study states when one of the CDC's 5.484 respondents refused to answer the question about gun use, quote:
Refusals to even answer the question even more clearly seem to be responses by people who had in fact used a gun defensively. Unquote
This college professor has filled his employer's mandated requirement to publish, but reading their unpeer reviewed work, it shows it is significantly flawed with numerous unsubstantiated commentary like above with has skewed the author's conclusions as they attempt to recoverfrom his previously flawedand discredited article in 1995!
Much todo about nothing.
Get used to it, and consider yourself lucky you weren't labeled a fanatical gun nut and threatened to boot for spreading false rumors.I've been reciting the findings of this study on-line for a couple of years now and to no surprise, leftist still refuse to acknowledge any of it. In other words, if the study (any study) doesn't coincide verbatim with their preconceived lies and deliberate misinformation, it possibly can't be accurate.
It's like talking to a rock. An extremely ignorant rock!
Oh, trust me I have been called much worse than "gun-nut" by the left-tards. I've also been summarily blocked by numerous left-tard leaning sites simply for stating facts. Wherein facts are obviously irrelevant to left-tards, less the reinforce their laundry-list of lies. etc..Get used to it, and consider yourself lucky you weren't labeled a fanatical gun nut and threatened to boot for spreading false rumors.
I've been reciting the findings of this study on-line for a couple of years now and to no surprise, leftist still refuse to acknowledge any of it. In other words, if the study (any study) doesn't coincide verbatim with their preconceived lies and deliberate misinformation, it possibly can't be accurate.
It's like talking to a rock. An extremely ignorant rock!
Oh, trust me I have been called much worse than "gun-nut" by the left-tards. I've also been summarily blocked by numerous left-tard leaning sites simply for stating facts. Wherein facts are obviously irrelevant to left-tards, less the reinforce their laundry-list of lies. etc..
The way I figure it, the more left-leaning sites that I get banned from, the better. It serves as an indication of how well I'm getting their panties all twisted up.
Oh bradley, a clarification:
First you stated in your post on Tuesday of last week, quote:
I've been reciting the findings of this study on-line for a couple of years now...
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Yet today, you state, quote:
I specifically referenced the recent CDC study, Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence ...
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So you have been citing a recent study for a couple of years?
Those who whine and complain how to respond to the anti's unsubstantiated rhetoric regarding firearms to bolster our agenda yet, we ourselves, spew the same unsubstantiated emotional & inexcusable hearsay back at them.
The study in question has not been peer reviewed, the data from the CDC is over 20 years and not validated nor replicated.
The promoter of the study was debunked twenty years ago and now all of a sudden he found this CDC data, yet nobody questions it?
There is absolutely nothing to take away from this study whatsoever.
I think John Lott might challenge you on the 'unsubstantiated' part
The key to your response is that the data that was taken down cannot be unseen. Like any other 'headline' it's all that people remember and most likely the retraction and correction is obscured form view and quickly forgotten. Ever notice how small the corrections and retractions are in the newspaper?Sorry, Mr Lott's data, fortunately, is current, validated, and his stud[ies] are substantiated through established statistical methodologies.
As for my contention about Kleck 'finding', after 20 years, the CDC's data to reinvent his '96 study all without validating the data, peer review, etc.
Seems in 2016, Lott discerned there was an overstatement 'error' in the CDC's data on gun deaths - quote,
Lott alerted the CDC to the error "at the beginning of 2016" and "it took months" for the government agency to correct the error.
To make matters worse, gun control groups like the Safe Tennessee Project (STP) grabbed the inaccurate numbers and implemented them in their campaign for gun storage laws. STP took the numbers down once the CDC error was uncovered, but those who saw them in the gun control campaign cannot unsee them. Unquote. John Lott: CDC 'Coding Error' Hid Record Low for Accidental Gun Deaths | Breitbart
This billdeserthill, et al., is why at least one side of this discussion gripping our nation has to assure critical thinking skills, along with a health cynicism, are applied to our facts instead of throwing out emotionalized fake news like it is Gospel which the other side does!
The CDC hid data it collected proving Americans use guns for self defense in large numbers. CDC, in Surveys It Never Bothered Making Public, Provides More Evidence that Plenty of Americans Innocently Defend Themselves with Guns