“Gun experts said unpublished study showed that guns were used for protection far more often than to commit crime.
A new paper out of Florida State University accused the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of hiding results from a survey they conducted that said guns were used for defense three-and-a-half times more often than they are used by criminals.
There were nearly 2.5 million instances a year where people used a firearm for self-defense, defending others or protecting their property, according to the CDC student that remained unpublished.
The CDC conducted the study with data they collected from 1996, 1997, and 1998 and the findings were just recently uncovered, Reason Magazine reported.
The unpublished study supported previous findings by Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck and fellow Florida State University professor Marc Gertz who have claimed since the early 1990s that there were between 760,000 and 2.5 million “defensive handgun uses” per year.
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The CDC’s findings meant that people were using guns in the United States more often for defensive purposes than for offensive uses.
But the CDC never published the lost survey data that Kleck uncovered.
Kleck released a new paper on Feb. 26 on the issue titled, “What Do CDC’s Surveys Say About the Frequency of Defensive Gun Uses?”
In that paper, Kleck exposed the fact that the CDC did national surveys asking about defensive gun use in 1996, 1997, and 1998.
The CDC’s findings were that an average of 2.46 million U.S. adults used a gun for self defense in each of those years from 1996 to 1998.”
by Andrew Blake
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