“Self-defense can
be an important crime deterrent,”says a new report by the Centers for Disease
Control (CDC). The $10 million study was commissioned by President Barack Obama
as part of 23 executive orders he signed in January.
“Studies that
directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns (i.e., incidents
in which a gun was ‘used’ by the crime victim in the sense of attacking or
threatening an offender) have found consistently lower injury rates among
gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective
strategies,” the CDC study, entitled “Priorities For Research to Reduce the
Threat of Firearm-Related Violence,” states…..To Read More….
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