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Old 07-04-2023, 05:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Trayderjoe View Post
Actually, the CDC used to report the defensive gun incidents as previously cited. Since they moved away from that due to pressure from anti-gun lobbyists, their website has been "cleansed". Forbes, which is not a conservative site, published an article in April 2018 entitled "That Time The CDC Asked About Defensive Guns Uses". The article makes references to earlier surveys conducted by the CDC about defensive gun use.

It is difficult to prove that the CDC reported data they scrubbed from their website, but it is not unreasonable to believe that they did report such data given the references in such earlier publications.
Aha. So now we know where the data came from. It came from a study conducted in 2013. That's a decade ago. The data no longer applies, it has no relevance to the world we live in today.