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re: Obama's CDC study on Firearms.
Posted on 3/5/18 at 3:27 pm to crazy4lsu
Posted on 3/5/18 at 3:27 pm to crazy4lsu
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This report doesn't seem to have any methodology that I can tell, and seems to be written primarily to direct areas of future research. The report even acknowledges the difficulty in estimating how many lives were saved through defensive use of guns.
You aren't going to find any reliable statistics on this figure because defensive use often goes unreported. Even something as simple as brandishing a firearm at a criminal is enough of a deterrent without firing a shot. The number could be well into the millions.
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Posted on 3/5/18 at 3:30 pm to SidewalkDawg
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You aren't going to find any reliable statistics on this figure because defensive use often goes unreported. Even something as simple as brandishing a firearm at a criminal is enough of a deterrent without firing a shot. The number could be well into the millions.
The 500,000 to 3 million figure is based on an extrapolation of national surveys. Finding the justification for that extrapolation is always important and worthwhile in my view.
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