Bootney Lee Farnsworth
Diamond Member
The CDC removed it. I have also seen the estimates at 2.1 million times per year.This is a flagrant lie. The CDC never made any such claim. I've asked 2aguy time and again to provide a link to the actual text from the CDC, and he has failed to do so on every occasion.
It was here:
Fast Facts: Firearm Violence and Injury Prevention |Violence Prevention|Injury Center|CDC
What is a firearm injury? Learn fast facts of firearm violence from the CDC Injury Center.
![www.cdc.gov](https://www.cdc.gov/TemplatePackage/4.0/assets/imgs/favicon-32x32.png)
but apparently, the cite has been "updated" (scrubbed).
This Forbes article discusses it:
![www.forbes.com](https://imageio.forbes.com/blogs-images/paulhsieh/files/2016/06/lossy-page1-1200px-Tom_Harkin_Global_Communications_Center_PHIL_8876.tif_-1200x764.jpg?format=jpg&width=1200)
That Time The CDC Asked About Defensive Gun Uses
Why did the CDC fail to publish 1990s research on numbers of defensive gun uses?
![www.forbes.com](https://i.forbesimg.com/48X48-F.png)