CDC Scrubs Defensive Gun Use numbers in order to help pass gun laws

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CDC Quietly Scrubbed Key Firearm Stats After Pressure From Gun Control Activists, Emails Show (msn.com)

Estimated 2.5 Million cases of defensive gun uses per year

 "The advocates argued that the 2.5 million statistic, found in a study by criminologist Gary Kleck, was misleading, incorrect and made it harder to pass gun control laws, spurring the CDC’s decision to remove the statistics from its website. "

“[T]hat 2.5 Million number needs to be killed, buried, dug up, killed again and buried again,” Mark Bryant, one of the attendees who runs the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), wrote in an email to the CDC." 

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Either that or the defensive number is quietly mixed in with "homicides" and police shootings (which is vaguely and conveniently called "gun violence") to inappropriately show higher numbers in states where there are less gun restrictions.  This is usually done to inappropriately show that New Jersey has less so-called gun violence than other states.  It is quite deceitful.