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United States News Title: Obama-backed study confirms firearms are a crime deterrent Back in January, President Barack Obama signed a number of executive orders into law, including one that ordered the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to study ways to reduce the threat of gun violence. That study has finally been released and it likely doesn’t produce the narrative that the White House wanted. While it offers insight into gun violence and how to identify and prevent it from occuring, CNS News dug into the study and notes that it points to firearms as an important deterrent to crime and that instances of gun violence have fallen over the last five years: 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. The report, which notes that “ violent crimes, including homicides specifically, have declined in the past five years,” also pointed out that “some firearm violence results in death, but most does not.” In fact, the CDC report said, most incidents involving the discharge of firearms do not result in a fatality. […] The report expresses uncertainty about gun control measures, stating that “whether gun restrictions reduce firearm-related violence is an unresolved issue,” and that there is no evidence “that passage of right-to-carry laws decrease or increase violence crime.” It also stated that proposed “gun turn-in programs are ineffective.” The Cato Institute put out a study early last year — Tough Targets: When Criminals Face Armed Resistance from Citizens — that documented many different uses of firearms for defensive purposes over an eight year period. The authors, Clayton Cramer and David Burnett, note that “tens of thousands of crimes are prevented each year by ordinary citizens with guns,” including guns in the home. Other private studies have found that there are as many as 2.5 million instances each year where guns are used for self-defense and, in the vast majority of cases, there are no shots fired. While there are certainly examples of tragedy, such as the shooting at Sandy Hook, firearms also save lives, which is an inconvenient truth for the gun control crowd.
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