MSM are concentrating only on criminal use of guns and hidden the fact that use of guns to prevent crimes is by far greater than the figures how victims.

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An unpublished Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study confirms Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck’s findings of more than two million defensive handgun uses (DGUs) per year.

Since the early 1990s, Kleck has maintained that there is a minimum of 760,000 DGUs annually. That is his low estimate; Kleck and research partner Marc Gertz have contended the actual number is closer to 2.5 million.

Kleck reaffirmed his numbers on February 17, 2015, explaining that while plenty of naysayers have criticized his findings, none have been able to offer empirical evidence to counter them.

Now, a CDC study conducted on data from 1996, 1997, and 1998 has been uncovered. The study, which was never released to the public, shows approximately 2.46 million DGUs per year.

In 1996, 1997, and 1998, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conducted large-scale national surveys asking about defensive gun use (DGU). They never released the findings, or even acknowledged they had studied the topic. I obtained the unpublished raw data and computed the prevalence of DGU. CDC’s findings indicated that an average of 2.46 million U.S. adults used a gun for self-defense in each of the years from 1996 through 1998 – almost exactly confirming the estimate for 1992 of Kleck and Gertz (1995). Possible reasons for CDC’s suppression of these findings are discussed.

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On April 20, 2018, Reason magazine quoted Kleck’s reaction to the unpublished CDC findings; he explained that a figure of 2.46 million DGUs a year “[implies] that guns were used defensively by victims about 3.6 times as often as they were used offensively by criminals.”

So it begs the question how many people killed or injured and crimes committed would have been prevented or not happened if the guns were not taken away from Australians.

Due to the admission of the wrong people in our immigration & refugee programs, we now see a couple of the major growth industries in Oz are car jacking & home invasions.

To overcome this we really do need to greatly increase our deportation of these imported criminals, & legalise the carrying of concealed hand guns, at least in the areas of most danger from this development, caused by stupid policies.

Issy, as a confessed member, and insider, of the Australian chapter of the NRA, do you expect plenty more cash to flow through the back door from the Yankee HQ to finance the far right candidates at the next Federal election, like last time.

No, Paul, because it doesn't happen, however if you have any evidence to the contrary or can post some links, go for it.

While you're at it you might post something about the finances of that most secretive organization, Gun Control Australia.

Foxy,

Thanks, it works.

Looks like a case of putting the money where the mouth is!!