CDC Quietly Scrubbed Key Firearm Stats After Pressure From Gun Control Activists, Emails Show

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Just another example as to why federal bureaucratic agencies cannot be trusted.

 

CDC Quietly Scrubbed Key Firearm Stats After Pressure From Gun Control Activists, Emails Show

 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) quietly removed a range of gun statistics from its website after gun control advocates complained that the statistics made gun control laws harder to pass, according to emails between CDC officials and gun control activists.

 

Over a three-month period, gun control advocates met with CDC officials about its estimate of defensive gun uses per year, which ranged from 60,000 to 2.5 million based on a review of various studies, according to the emails. The advocates argued that the 2.5 million statistic, found in a study by criminologist Gary Kleck, was misleading, incorrect and made it harder to pass gun control laws, spurring the CDC’s decision to remove the statistics from its website. (RELATED: New Poll Shows American’s Attitude Toward More Gun Control)

 

“[T]hat 2.5 Million number needs to be killed, buried, dug up, killed again and buried again,” Mark Bryant, one of the attendees who runs the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), wrote in an email to the CDC. “It is highly misleading, is used out of context and I honestly believe it has zero value – even as an outlier point in honest DGU discussions.”

 

https://dailycaller.com/2022/12/15/cdc-quietly-scrubbed-key-firearm-stats/