According to The Truth About Guns The CDC Caving to Gun Control Groups Pressure Is the Very Definition of Political Corruption.
Last week’s bombshell report by The Reload showing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) purposefully omitted defensive-use data sets after being lobbied by gun control groups shows serious concerns with the government-funded agency that’s charged with saving lives and protecting people from health threats.
The revelation of twisting data to meet pre-determined conclusions is the antithesis of science. It is nothing short of censorship. It is, in fact, dangerous that CDC researchers are cherry-picking data to force an outcome.
That the CDC has been caught once again attempting to subvert the Constitution should surprise no one. It seems to be a constant theme with these people, but it is nonetheless disappointing.
Researchers at the CDC deleted a reference to a self-defense gun use study after gun control groups complained that including the data would prevent them pressuring Congress to pass more gun control laws, The Reload reported. It was the result of months of political arm-twisting by three different gun control groups – the Gun Violence Archive, GVPedia and the Newtown Action Alliance.
The groups took issue with a study by Gary Kleck, award-wining Professor Emeritus at Florida State University’s College of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Kleck’s study estimated defensive gun uses (DGU) happen between 60,000 and 2.5 million times per year in the United States. That 2.5 million figure was too much for the gun control groups to accept. Instead of providing refuting evidence, they killed the study and censored the data.
“[T]hat 2.5 Million number needs to be killed, buried, dug up, killed again and buried again,” Mark Bryant, one of the attendees who also runs Gun Violence Archive – the source for mainstream media’s “mass shooting” statistics. He wrote to CDC officials after their meeting, according The Reload, complaining of Kleck’s study. “It is highly misleading, is used out of context and I honestly believe it has zero value – even as an outlier point in honest DGU discussions.”
Professor Kleck stood by his research. “CDC is just aligning itself with the gun-control advocacy groups,” Kleck told The Reload. “It’s just saying: ‘we are their tool, and we will do their bidding.’ And that’s not what a government agency should do.”
That Kleck study was one of the first and helped to start the modern concealed carry revolution by pointing out that handguns are used far more to save lives than to murder. Many times, it is just the presence of a gun that heads off a crime, saving the lives of both the perpetrator and the victim. But gun control groups don't like it because it makes the case for more people carrying concealed firearms for personal defense, particularly for people who live in high crime neighborhoods.
Government should be neutral in this debate. Unfortunately, as we see, a government agency, using your and my tax money, are putting their thumbs on the scale. This is political corruption, and the Congress should put a stop to it.
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