It took four years for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta to reverse its bending the knee to gun rights opponents, but it is done.
The agency now reports that there are between 500,000 and 2.5 million defensive gun uses in the U.S. annually. That’s the number from a comprehensive 2013 National Academies report, verified by updated research.
It corrects the previous citation of 60,000 per year as the low end of the spectrum.=
Public policy should not be based on censored data
The CDC sparked controversy in 2022 when it caved to political pressure and removed this data from its website. Second Amendment opponents were aghast that the benefits of keeping and bearing arms were exposed for all to see.
Prominent anti-gunners complained in a 2021 meeting with CDC officials that the research impeded enacting more stringent gun control. The facts got in the way of activists’ arguments, so they wanted them to go away.
Amazingly, they got their way.
Gun control radicals want to pretend firearms do not save lives
This blatant example of censoring information critical to public policy decisions was finally reversed in August. The CDC reposted the findings and has updated the figures to more accurately reflect the staggering number of times law-abiding Americans rely on the Second Amendment to protect life and property.
Why is this so important?
Those who would erase the right to keep and bear arms entirely know that their rantings fall on deaf ears when defensive gun use is considered. There is nothing more fundamental to constitutional liberties than self-defense; without it, other freedoms can quickly become meaningless.
Gun owners know that it is often unnecessary to fire a weapon to halt a threat. Knowing their potential victim is armed and ready is a powerful deterrent, and these often unreported incidents deserve recognition.
Courageous people who refuse to be lambs led to the slaughter stop violent criminals cold every single day. This infuriates gun control forces to no end, and it is telling that their solution to losing the debate was to censor facts.
It took four years for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta to reverse its bending the knee to gun rights opponents, but it is done.
The agency now reports that there are between 500,000 and 2.5 million defensive gun uses in the U.S. annually. That’s the number from a comprehensive 2013 National Academies report, verified by updated research.
It corrects the previous citation of 60,000 per year as the low end of the spectrum.
Public policy should not be based on censored data
The CDC sparked controversy in 2022 when it caved to political pressure and removed this data from its website. Second Amendment opponents were aghast that the benefits of keeping and bearing arms were exposed for all to see.
Prominent anti-gunners complained in a 2021 meeting with CDC officials that the research impeded enacting more stringent gun control. The facts got in the way of activists’ arguments, so they wanted them to go away.
Amazingly, they got their way.
Gun control radicals want to pretend firearms do not save lives
This blatant example of censoring information critical to public policy decisions was finally reversed in August. The CDC reposted the findings and has updated the figures to more accurately reflect the staggering number of times law-abiding Americans rely on the Second Amendment to protect life and property.
Why is this so important?
Those who would erase the right to keep and bear arms entirely know that their rantings fall on deaf ears when defensive gun use is considered. There is nothing more fundamental to constitutional liberties than self-defense; without it, other freedoms can quickly become meaningless.
Gun owners know that it is often unnecessary to fire a weapon to halt a threat. Knowing their potential victim is armed and ready is a powerful deterrent, and these often unreported incidents deserve recognition.
Courageous people who refuse to be lambs led to the slaughter stop violent criminals cold every single day. This infuriates gun control forces to no end, and it is telling that their solution to losing the debate was to censor facts.
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