Gun owners commit less crime

[DeusxMac]

wowzer wrote:
I believe that guns crime has more to do with income, rather than safety from owning a gun. However, the CDC studied this in 2008 and found 600,000-1.2million defensive gun uses per year.

"Most purported self-defense gun uses are gun uses in escalating arguments, and are both socially undesirable and illegal"

"Firearms are used far more often to intimidate than in self-defense"

"Guns in the home are used more often to intimidate intimates than to thwart crime"

"Adolescents are far more likely to be threatened with a gun than to use one in self-defense"

"Few criminals are shot by decent law-abiding citizens"

"Self-defense gun use is rare and not more effective at preventing injury than other protective actions"

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firea...gun-use-2/

wowzer wrote: But due to pressure from anti gunners (and Obama), they forced the CDC to remove it:

Citation consists of "...reportedly removed statistics..." based on "...emails obtained and published by The Reload show"

Anyone curious should read the Faux "news" story regardless. It quotes the email which explains:
"...that very small (CDC) study by Gary Kleck has been debunked repeatedly by everyone from all sides of this issue [even Kleck] it still remains canon by gun rights folks and their supporting politicians and is used as a blunt instrument against gun safety regulations every time there is a state or federal level hearing," Bryant's email continued. "Put simply, in the time that study has been published as ‘a CDC Study’ gun violence prevention policy has ground to a halt, in no small part because of the misinformation that small study provided."

Gun-lover do seem to be averse to actually reading their "sources". :facepalm: