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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1186634" data-attributes="member: 12952">[h=2]<a href="http://weaselzippers.us/2013/08/17/ooopsie-cdc-study-on-guns-commissioned-by-obama-puts-paid-to-most-gun-control-arguments/" target="_blank">Ooopsie, CDC Study On Guns, Commissioned By Obama, Puts Paid To Most Gun Control Arguments</a>[/h]This study was completed in June, yet was virtually ignored by the media. Perhaps because it didn’t fit the talking points?&nbsp;In short:1. most gun deaths are suicides, not criminal violence.2. there were anywhere between 500,000 to 3 million defensive uses of guns, per year.3. both accidental deaths and mass shootings have declined, both accounting for very small fraction of gun related deaths.4. Most criminals gain their guns from family, friends or illegal means,&nbsp; and so outside the “controls” envisioned by the gun control gang.5. High gun related homicides are in Illinois, California, New Jersey,&nbsp; Washington D.C. skew the figures; these are areas where there are some&nbsp; of most restrictive gun laws.&nbsp;Thus, the study tends to show that most of the gun control talk, is&nbsp; just that, talk, without much reality in actually addressing gun crime,&nbsp; and tends to support most of the things that gun rights advocates have&nbsp; repeatedly said.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1186634, member: 12952"] [h=2][URL="http://weaselzippers.us/2013/08/17/ooopsie-cdc-study-on-guns-commissioned-by-obama-puts-paid-to-most-gun-control-arguments/"]Ooopsie, CDC Study On Guns, Commissioned By Obama, Puts Paid To Most Gun Control Arguments[/URL][/h] This study was completed in June, yet was virtually ignored by the media. Perhaps because it didn’t fit the talking points? In short: 1. most gun deaths are suicides, not criminal violence. 2. there were anywhere between 500,000 to 3 million defensive uses of guns, per year. 3. both accidental deaths and mass shootings have declined, both accounting for very small fraction of gun related deaths. 4. Most criminals gain their guns from family, friends or illegal means, and so outside the “controls” envisioned by the gun control gang. 5. High gun related homicides are in Illinois, California, New Jersey, Washington D.C. skew the figures; these are areas where there are some of most restrictive gun laws. Thus, the study tends to show that most of the gun control talk, is just that, talk, without much reality in actually addressing gun crime, and tends to support most of the things that gun rights advocates have repeatedly said. [/QUOTE]

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