{"id":1792731,"date":"2023-01-02T11:36:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T16:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1792731"},"modified":"2023-01-02T11:36:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T16:36:22","slug":"gun-control-groups-got-cdc-to-scrub-good-guys-with-guns-study-emails-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gun-control-groups-got-cdc-to-scrub-good-guys-with-guns-study-emails-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun Control Groups Got CDC To Scrub \u2018Good Guys With Guns\u2019 Emails and Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgun-control-groups-got-cdc-to-scrub-good-guys-with-guns-study-emails-show%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1792731&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>A federal agency was involved in helping gun control advocates to discredit a study. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/guns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">law-abiding firearms owners<\/a> They can help you protect yourself millions of times per annum, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/cdc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a> After gun control advocates claimed that it made it harder to pass gun laws, (CDC) removed a reference about the study. Site supporting the Second Amendment <a href=\"https:\/\/thereload.com\/emails-cdc-removed-defensive-gun-use-stats-after-gun-control-advocates-pressured-officials-in-private-meeting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Reload reported<\/a> The White House and the powerful Illinois Democratic Senator Dick Durbin were involved in arranging a series of meetings where gun control advocates persuaded the agency to conceal the study.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]hat 2.5 Million number needs to be killed, buried, dug up, killed again and buried again,\u201d Mark Bryant is the head of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunviolencearchive.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gun Violence Archive<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thereload.com\/app\/uploads\/2022\/12\/CDC-DGU-Mark-Bryant-on-killing-Kleck-estimate.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0Following a meeting, CDC officials should be contacted. \u201cIt is highly misleading, is used out of context and I honestly believe it has zero value \u2013 even as an outlier point in honest DGU discussions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Update: The CDC never sent any actual letters <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/teamtrace?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@teamtrace<\/a> The statement it prepared in response to the publication\u2019s initial inquiry about its decision to modify the language on the agency&#8217;s website regarding defensive gun use, and the lobbying campaign that underpins it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/24igo5iePL\">https:\/\/t.co\/24igo5iePL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Reload (@TheReloadSite) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheReloadSite\/status\/1608472152033955840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bryant\u2019s email was one of a handful obtained by The Reload which illustrate how gun control lobbyists were triggered by the study by Florida State University Criminology Professor Gary Kleck. The CDC reviewed several studies on defensive gun use. Kleck\u2019s findings represented the upper end of estimates for how many times lawful gun owners defended themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Bryant complained that Kleck\u2019s estimate was \u201cmisinformation\u201d and should be eliminated from the CDC\u2019s website because gun-rights advocates were using it as ammunition for their Second Amendment arguments.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC originally supported the study and included it in its initial listing. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/violenceprevention\/firearms\/fastfact.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fast Facts: Firearm Violence Prevention<\/a>\u201d Its website. The agency promised that it would revise this section by 2022 following a virtual meeting with gun control advocates on September 15, 20,21. According to an email obtained by The Reload on December 10, 2020, the agency said they had received an email from them confirming their promise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are planning to update the fact sheet in early 2022 after the release of some new data,\u201d Beth Reimels, associate director for policy, partnerships, and strategic communication at the CDC\u2019s Division of Violence Prevention, wrote in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thereload.com\/app\/uploads\/2022\/12\/CDC-DGU-Beth-Reimels-thanks-gun-control-advocates.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the email<\/a>. \u201cWe will also make some edits to the content we discussed that I think will address the concerns you and other partners have raised.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>References to studies on defensive gun use were removed from the site in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEstimates of defensive gun use vary depending on the questions asked, populations studied, timeframe, and other factors related to study design,\u201d The site is now updated. \u201cGiven the wide variability in estimates, additional research is necessary to understand defensive gun use prevalence, frequency, circumstances, and outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CDC did not respond to The Reload\u2019s request for comment on the decision. Durbin spokeswoman Emily Hampsten told the site her boss\u2019s only involvement was \u201csimply connecting\u201d \u201cstakeholder organizations\u201d Contact a federal agency.<\/p>\n<p>Kleck called it the decision \u201cblatant censorship\u201d meant to distort the debate about gun rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not complicated,\u201d Kleck stated that this was yet another example of how politicized the CDC is.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC\u2019s decision to remove all estimates on defensive gun uses was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrace.org\/2022\/06\/defensive-gun-use-data-good-guys-with-guns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first reported by The Trace<\/a>, a pro-gun control site that disputed Kleck\u2019s scholarship. The Reload obtained the emails cited in The Reload through a Freedom of Information Act request for the California Rifle &#038; Pistol Association.<\/p>\n<p>Bryant\u2019s group is one of several gun control advocacy organizations that have used a broad definition of \u201cmass shootings\u201d To portray them as very common in America. According to their definition, a mass shooting is when four or more people are injured in an incident involving firearms. Mass shootings occur 10 times more often than the standard definition, which requires at least four fatalities.<\/p>\n<p>Gun Violence Archive is conservative when it comes to delineating defensive gun use incidents. It only counts incidents that appear in media reports and police reports. Gun Violence Archive estimates that there are less than 2000 cases per year of defensive gun usage.<\/p>\n<p>In response to a Trace query, the CDC attempted to explain why it had removed defensive gun use statistics. However, this was never done. The CDC stated that the range of estimates was too wide to include them. \u201craise more questions than it answered.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A key federal agency worked with gun control advocates to bury a study that showed law-abiding firearms owners use them to protect themselves millions of times per year, according to a report. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) deleted a reference to the study, which it had commissioned, after gun-control advocates said it &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1792734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[5097,4154,6202,8602,5461,7012,4204,4535,12876,4866,6195],"class_list":["post-1792731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-cdc","tag-control","tag-daily","tag-emails","tag-good","tag-gun","tag-guns","tag-guys","tag-scrub","tag-study","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1792731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1792734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1792731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1792731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1792731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}