{"id":102515,"date":"2024-06-19T15:50:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T20:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=102515"},"modified":"2024-06-19T15:51:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T20:51:00","slug":"102515","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=102515","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Even CDC Admits Latest Anti-gun Report is Misleading and Full of Holes<\/a><\/p>\n

SAF Investigative Journalism Project<\/p>\n

Three teenage girls were alone in their Lawrence County, Kentucky home one hot summer day in 2019.<\/p>\n

Suddenly, a white car pulled up and two men got out. One man started kicking in the front door. The second suspect circled around to the backyard and began breaking out a window with a shovel. The youngest of the girls, who was 14-years old at the time, found and loaded the family\u2019s 9mm pistol and fired a round at one of the suspects, who both quickly left.<\/p>\n

In 2021, a 12-year-old boy armed himself after two masked home invaders broke into his grandmother\u2019s home demanding money. One of the suspects shot the 73-year-old woman, which prompted the youth to return fire in self-defense. Police later found one of the suspects curled up on his side in an intersection near the home. He was transported to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead. The grandmother survived her wounds.<\/p>\n

In February, a 14-year-old Houston-area teen fired six rounds at an intruder who was trying to break into his home through the front door. Police found the suspect, who was wearing gloves and carrying a backpack, in the front yard where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n

None of these defensive gun usages or any others were even mentioned in\u00a0a recent report<\/a>\u00a0from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which purported to examine firearm storage data behaviors. Defensive gun usages weren\u2019t the only data set omitted from the report. The CDC needed so many disclosures and disclaimers to tell readers what other data was missing from its research that it\u2019s a miracle the report even was published.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0report<\/a>, titled \u201cFirearm Storage Behaviors \u2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, Eight States, 2021\u20132022,\u201d was based on telephone interviews. The researchers called the respondents using a \u201crandom-digit\u2013dialed landline and mobile telephone survey.\u201d However, the authors immediately encountered four significant problems that limited the validity of their work:<\/p>\n

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  1. They were unable to determine whether firearms were stored loaded or unloaded during the phone interviews.<\/li>\n
  2. They were only able to obtain data from the eight states, which is statistically meaningless.<\/li>\n
  3. Some respondents did not want to disclose whether they had a firearm in their home.<\/li>\n
  4. All of the data was self-reported to the researchers, and therefore \u201csubject to social desirability and recall biases.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    As a result, the findings were statistical gibberish. In the handful of states that participated, the authors concluded, \u201c18.4% \u2013 50.6% of respondents reported the presence of a firearm in or around their home, and 19.5% \u2013 43.8% of those with a firearm reported that at least one firearm was stored loaded.\u201d<\/p>\n

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    Despite its holes, lack of conclusiveness and other problems, the CDC report was good enough for the corporate media. Gannett\u2019s flagship newspaper\u00a0USA TODAY<\/em>\u00a0quickly\u00a0published a story<\/a>\u00a0titled, \u201cStartling percentage of homes have unlocked, loaded guns, endangering kids, study finds.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Incompleteness doesn\u2019t matter to the corporate media if the topic is guns. Besides, the reporter quickly filled in the holes with quotes from Sarah Burd-Sharpe, senior director of research at Everytown for Gun Safety.<\/p>\n

    \u201cRoughly once every day in the United States, a child under the age of 18 gains access to a loaded gun and unintentionally shoots themself or someone else,\u201d Burd-Sharpe told the newspaper. \u201cBut there is no such thing as an accidental shooting by a child \u2013 the onus to store guns securely and keep them out of reach of children is always on adults.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Evidently, the fact that the CDC report didn\u2019t make that conclusion didn\u2019t matter to the newspaper reporter, their editors or Everytown\u2019s Burd-Sharpe.<\/p>\n

    Takeaways<\/strong><\/p>\n

    The CDC would love to waste millions of taxpayer dollars conducting anti-gun research, because their goal has always been to declare \u201cgun violence\u201d a public health crisis. They don\u2019t care about other types of violence, which are more common. For the CDC, only \u201cgun violence\u201d constitutes a crisis, and they see themselves behind the curve, since the American Medical Association adopted a policy calling \u201cgun violence\u201d a public health crisis back in 2016.<\/p>\n

    As it stands now, the CDC is barred from using public funds to support or advocate for gun control. We need to zealously be on guard for any attempt to circumvent this restriction, because the CDC has proven that its research is biased and cannot be trusted.<\/p>\n

    Defensive gun usages are not an aberration. They are the very reason why many law-abiding Americans keep firearms in their homes. To completely ignore them for a study that purports to examine firearm storage behaviors says a lot about the validity of the research and the bias of the researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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