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Oh, for the glory days of the CDC\u2019s anti-liberty\/gun \u201cresearch!\u201d They used to have the unrestrained ability to treat the Second Amendment as a contagion and spent untold millions producing \u201cresearch\u201d that treated gun ownership as a deadly \u00a0public health threat. Needless to say, the conclusions of that sort of research were predetermined. But in 1996, Congress rained on that anti-liberty parade: \u00a0<\/p>

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The cornerstone of the NRA\u2019s successful effort to hinder gun violence research is the\u00a0Dickey Amendment<\/strong>, passed in 1996. This amendment, attached to an appropriations bill, mandated that \u2018none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) may be used to advocate or promote gun control.\u2019 While the amendment itself did not explicitly ban research, it had a profound\u00a0chilling effect<\/strong>. The CDC, fearing political backlash and potential funding cuts, interpreted the amendment as a prohibition on\u00a0any<\/em>\u00a0research that could be perceived as advocating for gun control.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That was a good thing.\u00a0\u00a0So is this:<\/p>\n

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) put defensive gun use figures back on their website, and that data shows upwards of 2.5 million such uses a year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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This information from the CDC is not new; rather, it is newly reposted. It was deleted in 2022, and Breitbart News pointed to a FOX News\u00a0claim\u00a0that the deletion occurred after the CDC was pressured by gun control activists.<\/p>\n

But it is 2026, and the data is back on the CDC website on the \u201cAbout Firearm Injury and Death\u201d\u00a0page.<\/p>\n

Under the subtitle, \u201cDefensive Gun Use,\u201d the page says, \u201cEstimates of defensive gun use vary depending on the questions asked, populations studied, timeframe, and other factors related to study design. The report\u00a0Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence\u00a0indicates a range of 60,000 to 2.5 million defensive gun uses each year.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As one might expect, anti-liberty\/gun cracktivists absolutely hate that figure. They ridicule the very idea that American citizens with guns stop crimes and save lives, almost always without firing a shot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dr. John R. Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center is a scientist gun grabbers love to hate. They routinely attack his conclusions, but can\u2019t damage his methodology or data, which he makes freely available, unlike most anti-gun propagandists. He notes:<\/p>\n

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\u201c[T]hat 2.5 million number needs to be killed, buried, dug up, killed again and buried again,\u201d Mark Bryant, who runs the\u00a0Gun Violence Archive<\/strong>\u00a0(GVA),\u00a0wrote<\/strong>\u00a0to CDC officials in September 2021 after meeting with them. Bryant complained that because of the 2.5 million estimate, \u201cgun violence policy has ground to a halt.\u201d But government officials should not censor research or data simply because advocates believe the information makes it harder to advance their preferred policies.<\/p>

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The Justice Department\u2019s National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) estimates roughly 64,000 to 120,000 defensive firearm uses annually, placing it at the very low end of survey estimates. Researchers have conducted roughly 20 surveys on defensive gun use. Three produced estimates of about 800,000 defensive uses annually with handguns, while most of the others produced estimates exceeding one million, with the highest reaching about 3.5 million. The\u00a0average estimate is roughly two million<\/strong>. In 2021,\u00a0Georgetown University\u2019s William English<\/strong>\u00a0surveyed 16,708 gun owners and estimated approximately 1.67 million defensive gun uses annually.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s the kind of honesty and ethical science gun grabbers find so objectionable. In social science, methodology is supremely important. The NCVS survey asks people if they have been crime victims. Only if they answer \u201cyes\u201d are they asked about defensive gun use. People who repel crooks without firing a shot commonly\u00a0don\u2019t report the incident and don\u2019t\u00a0\u00a0think themselves victims, thus explaining\u00a0low-end results.\u00a0\u00a0Even that\u2019s not enough for gun grabbers:<\/p>\n

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Devin Hughes, who runs the gun-control group GVPedia, argued in a July 6, 2021, email that the CDC should instead rely on the Gun Violence Archive\u2019s defensive-gun-use count. Hughes described GVA as \u201cthe most widely accepted compendium of gun violence data.\u201d Yet GVA’s methodology produces dramatically lower defensive-gun-use estimates because it relies heavily on incidents reported by the news media.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As Lott notes, the problem is that \u201cnewsworthiness doesn’t provide a representative sample of defensive gun uses.\u201d The media misses defensive gun uses never reported to the police and often refuses to report anything positive about guns and gun owners, such as that 95% of defensive uses don\u2019t fire a shot.<\/p>\n

Democrats often accuse President Trump of non-transparency, despite the fact that he\u2019s the most transparent President in memory, constantly engaging with the press. Lott concludes with this:<\/p>\n

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Whatever estimate one ultimately accepts, the Trump administration at least trusts Americans to evaluate it for themselves.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s precisely what gun grabbers don\u2019t want Americans to do.<\/p>\n

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Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, lifelong athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer, and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is<\/em>\u00a0Stately McDaniel Manor.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>

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