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« RI federal district court rules magazines are not arms | Main | Bill of Rights Day »

CDC responded to antigun groups by censoring Kleck's findings

Posted by David Hardy · 15 December 2022 10:02 AM

The Reload reports on the results of a Freedom of Information Act request. CDC originally had released a list of studies claiming that the annual number of defensive gun uses was anywhere from 60,000 to 2.5 million, the latter being the finding of Gary Kleck, after a very detailed and well-designed survey. But antigun organizations asked CDC to delete references to the Kleck study ("[T]hat 2.5 Million number needs to be killed, buried, dug up, killed again and buried again.") and the CDC complied.

Here's another tidbit: the CDC actually asked about defensive gun use in several surveys, but after the data was collected, confirming Klick's estimate of 2.5 million, decided to say nothing about it.

"repeatedly debunked?" If that refers to Hemmenway's article criticizing it, Kleck in reply took him apart. It was as complete a demolition of an academic article as I have ever seen.

4 Comments | Leave a comment

Fyooz | December 15, 2022 11:44 AM | Reply

"that very small study by Gary Kleck has been debunked repeatedly by everyone from all sides of this issue [even Kleck]"

Even Kleck? Any background on this?

Old Guy | December 16, 2022 8:05 AM | Reply

Anyone have a link to Reply to the Hemmenway article?
Would love to read that

check light | December 16, 2022 11:34 AM | Reply

Not hard to find with a duckduckgo search.
For example, here's a link to one such article of Kleck's:
www dot hoplofobia dot info/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/2018-Hemenway-Distorted-Estimates-of-Defensive-Gun-Use-Frequency.pdf

wrangler5 | December 25, 2022 3:56 PM | Reply

All The News That Fits We Print has been a joke about the NY Times' famous motto for decades, but it describes most of the "major" media outlets perfectly, too. It is sad but not surprising to find that it has infected government agencies as well.

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