Sunday, August 18, 2013

CDC Study Ordered by Obama Contradicts White House Anti-gun Narrative

CDC Study Ordered by Obama Contradicts White House Anti-gun Narrative:
"For example, the majority of gun-related deaths between 2000 and 2010 were due to suicide and not criminal violence:
.....defensive use of guns “is a common occurrence,” according to the study:
Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million per year, in the context of about 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008.
Accidental deaths due to firearms has continued to fall as well, with “the number of unintentional deaths due to firearm-related incidents account[ing] for less than 1 percent of all unintentional fatalities in 2010.”

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