CDC removed stats on defensive gun use over pressure from gun control activists: report

[tyroneweaver]

cdc and science. LOL

CDC removed stats on defensive gun use over pressure from gun control activists: report

The CDC reportedly removed references to a CDC-commissioned study on defensive gun use from its website following an online meeting with gun control advocates.

www.foxnews.com

 

[pknopp]

Let's say they did. What difference does it make? The Supreme Court has ruled that people can own guns and even if they didn't people aren't going to give them up.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

cdc and science. LOL

CDC removed stats on defensive gun use over pressure from gun control activists: report

The CDC reportedly removed references to a CDC-commissioned study on defensive gun use from its website following an online meeting with gun control advocates.

www.foxnews.com

It was removed because it was a shit study, even the author of the study himself came out and said it was bad.

 

[2aguy]

It was removed because it was a shit study, even the author of the study himself came out and said it was bad.

No....he didn't......you idiot.

From 2015.....when Kleck defended his research from a couple of new, anti-gun hacks...

The reality that survey experts are familiar with, however, is that surveys of the general public simply do not overestimate crime-related experiences.

In order for a survey respondent to report a typical DGU, she or he must be willing to report all three of the following elements of the event: (1) a crime victimization experience, (2) his or her possession of a gun, and (3) his or her own commission of a crime. The last element is relevant because most DGUs occur away from the user’s home, and only about 1 percent of the population in 1993, when we conducted our survey, had a permit that allowed them to legally carry a gun through public spaces. Thus, although survey-reported defensive gun uses themselves rarely involve criminal behavior (that is, the defender did not use the gun to commit a criminal assault or other offense), most (at least back in 1993) involved unlawful possession of a gun in a public place by the defender.

So what does research on the flaws in surveys of crime-related behaviors tell us? It consistently indicates that survey respondents underreport (1) crime victimization experiences, (2) gun ownership and (3) their own illegal behavior. While it is true that a few respondents overstate their crime-related experiences, they are greatly outnumbered by those who understate them, i.e. those who falsely deny having the experience when in fact they did. In sum, research tells us that surveys underestimate the frequency of crime victimizations, gun possession and self-reported illegal behavior. Yet DeFilippis and Hughes somehow manage to conclude that defensive gun uses—incidents that always involve the first two of those elements, and usually the third as well—are overestimated in surveys.

Defensive Gun Use Is Not a Myth

Why my critics still have it wrong.

www.politico.com

 

[2aguy]

Let's say they did. What difference does it make? The Supreme Court has ruled that people can own guns and even if they didn't people aren't going to give them up.

The difference is that

1) we paid for that CDC study and deserve to have the truth.

2) the information deleted by the CDC biases anyone using that research

 

[pknopp]

The difference is that

1) we paid for that CDC study and deserve to have the truth.

Fair enough on that.

2) the information deleted by the CDC biases anyone using that research

But it will still make no difference.

 

[2aguy]

Fair enough on that.




But it will still make no difference.

To research, it will. Your point about the Constitution is correct....