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Unearthed Taxpayer Funded Gun Study Ordered By Obama Blows Holes In Every Gun Control Argument
DC Statesman ^ | 3/3/18 | Isabelle Weeks

Posted on 03/05/2018 10:03:13 AM PST by OregonRancher

President Obama commissioned a $10 million study to look at crime deterrents in January 2013, and what it says about gun control blows everything liberals and Democrats have ever said about guns out of the water, reports CNS News.

“Self-defense can be an important crime deterrent,” concluded a study by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) mandated via executive order by President Barack Obama. The study’s findings also question the effectiveness of gun-control measures.

CNS News reports that the study’s findings include:

Gun-use is the safest of studied “self-protective strategies,” Suicide accounts for most firearm deaths, Felons who use guns very seldom obtain their guns by stealing them, and There is no evidence that gun restrictions reduce gun violence.

“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.

Researchers also found that the majority of firearm deaths are from suicide, not homicide.

“Between the years 2000 and 2010, firearm-related suicides significantly outnumbered homicides for all age groups, annually accounting for 61 percent of the more than 335,600 people who died from firearm-related violence in the United States,” the study reports.

“Most felons report obtaining the majority of their firearms from informal sources,” adds the report, while “stolen guns account for only a small percentage of guns used by convicted criminals.”

The report expresses uncertainty about gun control measures, stating that “whether gun restrictions reduce firearm-related violence is an unresolved issue,” and that there is no evidence “that passage of right-to-carry laws decrease or increase violence crime.” It also stated that proposed “gun turn-in programs are ineffective.”

Instead, researchers proposed gun safety technologies such as “external locking devices and biometric systems” to reduce firearm-related deaths.

Perhaps the Democrats need to look at their own studies before their try to ban assault rifles or semi-automatic weapons and instead look at the situation from a common sense standpoint.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; crime; guncontrol; gunlaws; oops
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Jon Lott said this years ago.
1 posted on 03/05/2018 10:03:13 AM PST by OregonRancher
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To: OregonRancher

Conclusion first, evidence later.

And if the evidence doesn’t say what you want it to say, throw away the evidence.


2 posted on 03/05/2018 10:06:29 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (The government cannot protect you and isn't even trying. Self-defense is a right.)
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To: OregonRancher

I have been referencing this study since it came out.

It also says that the number of defensive gun uses are between 500,000 and three million a year.


3 posted on 03/05/2018 10:07:16 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: OregonRancher

Given the results is it any surprise the report had to be “unearthed”. I’m sure we’ll see this on the nightly news considering this is Obongo’s study right?


4 posted on 03/05/2018 10:07:29 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: OregonRancher

bump


5 posted on 03/05/2018 10:07:48 AM PST by apocalypto
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To: OregonRancher

Waiting for the Left Wing Media to report this.

Crickets.


6 posted on 03/05/2018 10:09:47 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: OregonRancher

If the criminals aren’t stealing the guns then how are they getting them?


7 posted on 03/05/2018 10:12:31 AM PST by A Cyrenian (I donated to FreeRepublic's fund to exist. Will you please?)
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To: OregonRancher

They still think that the “AR” in AR-15 means Assault Rifle when it really means Armalite Rifle; the company that initially designed it.


8 posted on 03/05/2018 10:13:25 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: OregonRancher

99 out of 100 criminals agree! they prefer unarmed victims........


9 posted on 03/05/2018 10:13:29 AM PST by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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To: SkyDancer

Then I suppose ‘AK’ means Automatic Kalashnikov!.............


10 posted on 03/05/2018 10:14:28 AM PST by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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To: SkyDancer

And they also think AK means Automatic Killer. I heard that over the weekend.


11 posted on 03/05/2018 10:14:30 AM PST by TallahasseeConservative ( Isaiah 40:31)
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To: OregonRancher

As for the study, where’s the “No, Schiff, Scherlock” meme.

The only part I found ‘surprising’ (don’t know WHY *SMH*), is the unlawful use of taxpayer $$$

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a study by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) mandated via executive order by President Barack Obama.
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By EO?? The the (D)SM is *freaking* about Trumps ‘dictator for life’ vote. Never a complaint about Zero’s aspirations, no?


12 posted on 03/05/2018 10:14:48 AM PST by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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To: OregonRancher

BFL


13 posted on 03/05/2018 10:15:46 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette)
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To: OregonRancher

They don’t care about safety, except that they want to be safe from the people they intend to tyrannize.


14 posted on 03/05/2018 10:16:02 AM PST by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one party control of communications.)
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To: OregonRancher
10 million$$$ - a poster for government waste...President Trump are you watching....??

Another voice: (Ann Coulter)

15 posted on 03/05/2018 10:16:23 AM PST by yoe
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To: unixfox
Waiting for the Left Wing Media to report this.

Crickets.

They will. They just have to figure out how to tie it to racism, homophobia, raping the environment and a few other items. Oh, and how to paint the ones that funded the study as racists.

16 posted on 03/05/2018 10:16:48 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: A Cyrenian

Having family, friends and acquaintances buy them for them.


17 posted on 03/05/2018 10:17:03 AM PST by Harpotoo
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To: TallahasseeConservative

Seriously??


18 posted on 03/05/2018 10:17:25 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: OregonRancher

“Perhaps the Democrats need to look at their own studies before their try to ban assault rifles or semi-automatic weapons and instead look at the situation from a common sense standpoint.”

“Democrats”, and “common sense” in one sentence! Non sequitur anyone?


19 posted on 03/05/2018 10:17:47 AM PST by rockinqsranch (Conservatives seek the truth. Democrats seek the power to dictate what truth is.)
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bookmark


20 posted on 03/05/2018 10:18:15 AM PST by freds6girlies (many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first. Mt. 19:30. R.I.P. G & J)
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