$10 Million Government Gun Study Proves the Obvious
A $10 million-dollar CDC report ordered by President Obama determined that victims of crime who were armed with a firearm suffered fewer injuries than crime victims who were un-armed.
Well, at least the CDC came up with the right answer, but we’re flabbergasted at the cost of this study. Dustin Ellermann, past Top Shot Champion, comments: “$10,000,000 to discover the obvious… [at least] maybe now the anti-gunners will stop yelling ‘If you have a gun it will most likely be used against you!'”
According to Texas Fish & Game Blog, the CDC Report, entitled Priorities For Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence, reveals that “studies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns (i.e., incidents in which a gun was ‘used’ by the crime victim in the sense of attacking or threatening an offender) have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies.”
Here are some comments on a related NewsMax.com story about the CDC report:
I am glad that an official Obama research project shows the same thing that Professor Gary Kleck found in his research about 20 years ago. Professor Kleck found that an honest citizen that had a gun saved himself from death more than 1 million times a year and often did not have to fire a shot. Usually when the crook saw that the citizen was armed that was the end of it.
Why does our government have to spend millions of dollars to do a study to find out what everyone else on earth in the history of man has already known?
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Oh but it was written by a pro-gun researcher! Glad he got the money!
Let the liberal progressive smear campaign begin!
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/06/28/controversial-pro-gun-researcher-helped-write-f/194660
Want to bet this will never be mentioned by the so-called “mainstream news media”?
I worked for the Feds for about 30 years. They have the answer they want first then they go looking for the information to substantiate it. There will be another study.
When any government official stupidly wastes taxpayers dollars on a ridiculous “study” ,they should be made accountable and have to personally reimburse the taxpayers.(like that will EVER happen)
Just out of curiosity ,how was the company/person that was paid the 10 million, related to Obama???Surely this had to be an “ObamaBonus”.
Editor: The study was commissioned on the basis of a Presidential Executive Order issued in response to the Sandy Hook events.
TEN MILLION SMACKERS!!!! And people wonder why we are broke……The imbeciles that launched this study should ask their anti-gun compadres to pay for it, not myself…..A revolution is coming, probably not in my lifetime, but unless common sense prevails, people will eventually die….Steve
“Why does our government have to spend millions of dollars to do a study to find out what everyone else on earth in the history of man has already known?”
Brilliant!
That is nothing…. I am waiting for the UN’s long term study to prove if water is… WET!!!!
Costs so far have not be disclosed due to the sensitive and classified nature of the study but rumor has the costs breaking 1 billion….
Jerry
So, [the President’s] Executive Order returned to bite him in the butt. Glad to see that The Messiah didn’t get what he was looking for. In fact, he got the exact opposite. I’m LMAO.
I think these statistics are contradictory