Obama ordered CDC gun violence study shreds his position

[allingeneral]

Earlier this year, President Obama signed a set of executive orders targeting gun violence in the wake of the Sandy Hook shootings. Among them was an edict commanding the CDC to do a comprehensive survey of studies regarding guns and gun violence in the United States. Clearly, once the CDC produced the hard evidence that the US was a violent nation of wild-west shootouts, the American people would be eager to approve and fund future research while embracing strict gun control legislation.

At least that was the plan. The study, which was compiled by the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council under the CDC's direction, was recently completed and released. The anti-gun crowd has been awfully quiet about it. Could it be that it didn't support their bogus hypothesis?

In a word, Yes. The CDC's numbers basically back every pro-gun rights argument made over the course of the last year.

Read more: http://www.caintv.com/obama-orders-cdc-gun-violence

[kjkimx]

I bookmarked the report, but haven't had a chance to read it yet.

For those who want to take a look:

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=18319&page=R1

[GettingOld]

I bookmarked the report, but haven't had a chance to read it yet.

For those who want to take a look:

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=18319&page=R1

I did a quick look and noted whatever caught my attention:

Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence
PREPUBLICATION COPY: UNCORRECTED PROOFS
ISBN
978-0-309-28438-7
124 pages
6 x 9
PAPERBACK (2013)

National Academy of Sciences


http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=18319&page=3
...Some firearm violence results in death, but most does not.
There are important disparities across socioeconomic and ethnic groups
in overall mortality rates from firearm violence. Further, there is substantial
variation in within each type of violence, suicide, homicide, unintentional injuries and fatalities. For example, suicides in youth may be motivated
by very different factors from those for suicides in older adults.
This kind of difference will affect the success of any prevention strategy.
It is ultimately important, of course, to understand the unique characteristics
of all types and subtypes of violence. However, resources focused
on three specific populations—the general population, the general
youth population, and the offender population—should yield actionable
information over the short term....

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=18319&page=5
At the community level, a range of factors appears to be related to
high levels of gun use. These include high rates of poverty illicit drug
trafficking, and substance use. ...
... Moreover, criminals often engage in violence as a means to acquire money, goods or other rewards....
...Impulsivity, low educational attainment, substance use, and prior history of aggression and abuse are considered risk factors for violence...

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=18319&page=6
...Studies on the impact of right-to-carry laws on firearm violence
also have inconsistent results and have been debated for a decade....

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=18319&page=13
Between the years 2000 and 2010, firearm-related suicides significantly
outnumbered homicides for all age groups, annually accounting
for 61 percent of the more than 335,600 people who died from firearmrelated
violence in the United States.

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=18319&page=14
There are major disparities among subpopulations of people in the
United States in terms of mortality rates from firearm violence. The patterns
for homicide and suicide are vastly different depending on economic
conditions and geography, with homicides occurring more frequently
among youth in high-poverty urban environments and suicides occurring
more frequently among middle-aged males in rural areas...
...Individual factors that may influence
these differences including age, substance use, engagement or association
with risky, delinquent, violent, or unlawful behaviors, propensity
for suicide, and whether the perpetrator of a homicide is a family member,
acquaintance, or stranger....

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=18319&page=15
...Defensive uses of guns by crime victims is a common occurrence,
although the exact number remains disputed (Cook and Ludwig, 1996;
Kleck, 2001a). Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive
gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by
criminals,...
...have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims
compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies...

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=18319&page=30
...Individuals living in urban areas experience higher rates
of firearm-related homicides than individuals in rural areas (Branas et al.,
2004). Both victims and perpetrators of firearm-related homicides tend to
be male (Cooper and Smith, 2011). In the vast majority of murders for
which the victim–offender relationship is known, the victim is a member
of the same race as the offender and is acquainted with the offender
(Cooper and Smith, 2011)...

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=18319&page=31
...The risk of homicide by firearm varies by race and ethnicity. In 2010,
the firearm-related homicide rate was significantly higher for blacks than
Asian/Pacific Islanders, whites, and American Indian/Alaskan Natives.26
Studies have shown that racial differences in socioeconomic status, residential
segregation, or neighborhood environmental hazards account for
some or all of the overall racial differences in homicide...
...handguns comprised 72.5 percent of the firearms used in murder
and non-negligent manslaughter incidents” (FBI, 2011b, p. 2)....
..Unintentional firearm-related deaths have steadily declined during
the past century.27 The number of unintentional deaths due to firearm related
incidents accounted for less than 1 percent of all unintentional
fatalities in 2010 (Hoyert and Xu., 2012)....

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=18319&page=32
...In 2010, firearms were involved in less than 6 percent of the
total 3,148,250 reported aggravated or simple assaults...


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[NovaHunter]

Quite a bit of info here. Thanks for posting Rick!