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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reportedly removed statistics on defensive gun use in the United States following pressure from gun control advocates.

The stats sourced from a CDC-commissioned study finding that instances of defensive gun use occur between 60,000 and 2.5 million times per year. References to that study were deleted from the site following private meetings with gun control advocates in 2021, emails obtained and published by The Reload show.

"[T]hat 2.5 Million number needs to be killed, buried, dug up, killed again and buried again," Mark Bryant, executive director of the Gun Violence Archive, wrote to the CDC in one of the emails. "It is highly misleading, is used out of context and I honestly believe it has zero value – even as an outlier point in honest DGU discussions."

"And while that very small study by Gary Kleck has been debunked repeatedly by everyone from all sides of this issue [even Kleck] it still remains canon by gun rights folks and their supporting politicians and is used as a blunt instrument against gun safety regulations every time there is a state or federal level hearing," Bryant's email continued. "Put simply, in the time that study has been published as ‘a CDC Study’ gun violence prevention policy has ground to a halt, in no small part because of the misinformation that small study provided."

Bryant was among several gun control advocates to meet virtually with CDC officials regarding the data. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., reportedly facilitated the meeting through his office.

The emails show that CDC officials initially resisted removing the reference. Dr. Deb Houry, the CDC's acting principal deputy director, argued that Bryant's GVA inspected only "a very small subset of people who have used guns defensively," adding that it "does not include individuals who might have used guns defensively, but not reported this use to law enforcement."

Houry explained that a situation in which a person brandished a firearm to prevent a conflict would not register under Bryant's metrics unless the person reported it to police.

Nevertheless, the CDC later acquiesced to Bryant following an online meeting with him and others on September 15, 2021, The Reload reported.

"We are planning to update the fact sheet in early 2022 after the release of some new data," Beth Reimels, Associate Director for Policy, Partnerships, and Strategic Communication at the CDC’s Division of Violence Prevention, wrote in a subsequent email. "We will also make some edits to the content we discussed that I think will address the concerns you and other partners have raised."

The CDC reportedly did not consult the study's author, Florida State University emeritus professor Gary Kleck prior to removing his study.

"CDC is just aligning itself with the gun-control advocacy groups," Kleck told the outlet. "It’s just saying: ‘we are their tool, and we will do their bidding.’ And that’s not what a government agency should do."

The CDC did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.

CDC should be defunded and destaffed of any initiative not specifically a disease. FBI already tracks violent crime.

NONE of the 'C's in CDC stand for Crime...NONE!

Maybe if that asshole attacking the rights of gun owners, and jeopardizing 2nd Amendment rights should be hung by the neck until dead as a warning to others of his kind. Then he could join his own statistical ranks as a suicide by proxy.

It's critical to these people to make gun deaths a 'public health' issue.

The CDC has become just as much an instrument of the socialist's left as the FBI.

Sad, when I was a young man in school, they did useful things and produced reliable data.

No More!

RMD

Republicans push CDC to reinstate defensive gun use data after gun control activists had it removed from site

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Republican lawmakers are pressing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to reinstate data on defensive gun use to its website after removing it at the request of gun control advocates.

Reps. August Pfluger, R-Texas, and Elise Stefanik, R-NY, sent a letter to CDC director Rochelle Walensky on Monday requesting more information about how the CDC decided to remove the data, according to a copy of the letter obtained by Fox News Digital. The CDC removed references to a study it commissioned following a series of 2021 meetings with gun control advocates.

"Public trust in the CDC is already at an all-time low. Now, we find out the supposed ‘non-partisan agency’ is removing information that gun control activists don’t like. The CDC’s own study showed that Americans have relied on their own guns for self-defense upwards of 2.5 million times in a year. Congress needs to act and put guardrails in place to protect from this behavior," Pfluger told Fox News Digital in a statement.

"The CDC must immediately end their blatant politicization of the facts in pursuit of the Far Left anti-gun agenda," Stefanik said in another statement to Fox. "The Biden Administration is shamefully lying to the American people and hiding the facts of how law-abiding citizens use their Constitutionally-protected Second Amendment rights to keep our families and communities safe."

The pair's letter goes on to seek answers about the CDC's process for removing the data, such as whether it consulted any outside groups before removing it, and how it plans to provide accurate defensive gun use data for Americans.

The CDC did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.

The CDC-commissioned study, authored by Florida State University emeritus professor Gary Kleck, found that instances of defensive gun use take place anywhere from 60,000 times to 2.5 million times per year in the U.S.

Mark Bryant, executive director of the pro-gun control Gun Violence Archive, told CDC officials that the data needed to be "killed, buried, dug up, killed again and buried again" in an email and subsequent meeting.

While CDC officials initially resisted his request, they ultimately agreed to remove the study from their website.

Pfluger and Stefanik argue that Americans' confidence in the CDC is already at an "all-time low" following its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, and this only worsens the issue.

"Opinions of the nation’s institutions continue to be low due to overt politicization — the CDC censoring public health facts at the behest of gun control advocates will only add to the mistrust. The removal of a study – commissioned by the CDC – indicates that the CDC is avoiding the responsibility bestowed to them by Congress," the pair wrote in the letter. "This censorship panders to the activist groups who aim to cover up the fact that much of the firearm industry prevails because consumers seek the ability to protect their life, liberty, and property."

Soviet Union tactic.

Yet another untrustworthy three letter federal agency that America would be better off without.

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Yet another untrustworthy three letter federal agency that America would be better off without.

It would be easier to list the ones we want to keep… Much shorter list

I like this guy. He brings up a least a couple Republicans—August Pflueger, Texas, and Elise Stefanik, New York, looking out for us.