Just a garbage meme I put together in like 5 minutes

Stop making stuff up. The CDC didn’t study gun violence.

They include a link in a “fast facts” page to someone else’s paper that surveys gun violence studies, including some studies about defensive gun use, like Kleck’s and they just say “more research is needed”. They even say to research video games effect on gun violence.

https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/firearms/fastfact.html

What is defensive gun use? How often does it occur?

Although definitions of defensive gun use vary, it is generally defined as the use of a firearm to protect and defend one’s self, family, others, and/or property against crime or victimization.

Estimates of defensive gun use vary depending on the questions asked, populations studied, timeframe, and other factors related to the design of studies. The report Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence indicates a range of 60,000 to 2.5 million defensive gun uses each year.

And here’s the description from the paper they linked to:

Description

In 2010, more than 105,000 people were injured or killed in the United States as the result of a firearm-related incident. Recent, highly publicized, tragic mass shootings in Newtown, CT; Aurora, CO; Oak Creek, WI; and Tucson, AZ, have sharpened the American public's interest in protecting our children and communities from the harmful effects of firearm violence. While many Americans legally use firearms for a variety of activities, fatal and nonfatal firearm violence poses a serious threat to public safety and welfare.

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