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<blockquote data-quote="oldngray" data-source="post: 2234178" data-attributes="member: 45230">CNN Gets Schooled by Guest With Actual Facts on Gun Violence in the U.S.PRATT: Well, what you failed to point out, Carol, is that the CDC also pursuant to President Obama issuing a decree to have them study this issue, they found that any where from 500,000 to 3 million times a year, guns are being used in self-defense. So that means for every negative tragic use of a firearm -- COSTELLO: Wait a minute. Wait, I just want to point out facts. I don&#039;t know what study you&#039;re citing, but the CDC has been barred from doing any research on guns. PRATT: It’s the CDC.The very same statistic.COSTELLO: Congress won&#039;t fund the CDC from funding any gun research on gun violence. So I don&#039;t know what--PRATT: He issued an executive order in January 2013, ordering the CDC, in fact, Slate wrote an article after the CDC published those statistics and Slate is no pro gun magazine, and they pointed out the article was entitled &quot;The surprising findings by the CDC.&quot; Certainly they were surprising to people on the left. The fact that 16 to 100 times more often, guns are being used to save lives than to take lives. The president since then seems to have ignored that CDC study.<a href="http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kristine-marsh/2016/06/23/cnn-gets-schooled-guest-actual-facts-gun-violence-us" target="_blank">CNN Gets Schooled by Guest With Actual Facts on Gun Violence in the U.S.</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="oldngray, post: 2234178, member: 45230"] [SIZE=6][B]CNN Gets Schooled by Guest With Actual Facts on Gun Violence in the U.S.[/B][/SIZE] [B]PRATT: Well, what you failed to point out, Carol, is that the CDC also pursuant to President Obama issuing a decree to have them study this issue, they found that any where from 500,000 to 3 million times a year, guns are being used in self-defense. So that means for every negative tragic use of a firearm -- [/B] [B]COSTELLO: Wait a minute. Wait, I just want to point out facts. I don't know what study you're citing, but the CDC has been barred from doing any research on guns. [/B] PRATT: It’s the CDC.The very same statistic. COSTELLO: Congress won't fund the CDC from funding any gun research on gun violence. So I don't know what-- PRATT: He issued an executive order in January 2013, ordering the CDC, [B]in fact, Slate wrote an article after the CDC published those statistics and Slate is no pro gun magazine, and they pointed out the article was entitled "The surprising findings by the CDC." Certainly they were surprising to people on the left. The fact that 16 to 100 times more often, guns are being used to save lives than to take lives. The president since then seems to have ignored that CDC study.[/B] [URL="http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kristine-marsh/2016/06/23/cnn-gets-schooled-guest-actual-facts-gun-violence-us"]CNN Gets Schooled by Guest With Actual Facts on Gun Violence in the U.S.[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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