An unidentified family in Memphis, TN had a webcam pointed at their front yard on April 25, 2018, which shows the following exchange. A passerby with a gun in his waistband demands a phone and a ride from a man at the home in question. The man’s wife runs out on the porch and shows the robber a gun in her hand – which is a much more useful place to have a gun if you need one than in your waistband.
The wife yells, “I advise you to back the **** up!” She fires a warning shot off-camera. Witnesses say the robber pulled out his gun and then shot at her. She fired back at the robber several times and he ran off. Our only advice to the wife is that in the future, she should remember to use a two-handed grip to improve her aim. No one was hurt in the encounter.
Up until this month, you would be hard-pressed to estimate how many times per year an incident like this, known as a “Defensive Gun Use” or DGU, takes place in America. Back in 1996, Congress banned the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) from doing any research that was pro- or anti-gun use. Pro- and anti-2nd Amendment officials were worried that the truth surrounding DGUs would be damaging to their argument, so public funds were off the table for this kind of research.
The only prior research into the frequency of DGUs was done in 1995 by Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck. Mr. Kleck’s scientific research led him to come up with an estimated 2.4 million defensive gun uses in America annually.
That was crackpot research, sniffed the anti-gun National Crime Victimization Survey. Everyone knows that there are only 100,000 DGUs in America each year, so we should all just disarm and let the government take care of us.
Many of us can remember sitting in a public-school classroom as children and being told by a visiting police officer, or some other government figure, that using a gun defensively in the home is a death sentence – for YOU. Their argument always went that you are more likely to shoot yourself or a family member if you use a gun to stop a home invasion. Criminals are pros and you don’t stand a chance against them!
Plus, if you pull a gun on them, it will just make them really mad and then the criminal is more likely to kill you. So, do yourself a favor, kids. Don’t use guns defensively, don’t own a firearm in your home and just trust the police to show up and make everything fine.
These are all lies from the anti-gun lobby, of course. It turns out that the CDC conducted major surveys of defensive gun use in 1996, 1997 and 1998. The survey was conducted as part of a broader study on behavioral risks in America, so the CDC skirted around the new law from Congress against gun use surveys. The result of the CDC’s research showed that there were an estimated 2.5 million DGUs in America every year. How about that!
Part of the difficulty in estimating DGUs lies in the fact that they are never reported by the defenders. Unless shots are fired and there is accompanying video, such as in the story above out of Memphis, DGUs rarely make the nightly newscast.
But now we have two independent surveys – one from Mr. Kleck and one from the CDC – which show roughly the exact same number of estimated DGUs in America each year.
The truth seems to be that Americans defend their lives, bloodlessly and without a shot being fired, millions of times each and every year. We never hear about these incidents because when a burglar hears the Scariest Sound In The Universe (a homeowner racking the slide on a 12-guage in a dark room), the burglar skedaddles and the police don’t bother to notify the media that there was a DGU. Not that the media would report on it in most cases anyway.
Guns save lives and property far more often than they are used in crimes, according to the CDC’s research. So why didn’t the CDC ever publish this research? Why are we only finding out about it now, 20 years later?
We all know the answer to that question, of course. It probably has a lot to do with the administration that was in power in the 1990s, when this damning evidence was uncovered by the CDC. Bury the information, lie about the truth and demonize Mr. Kleck as a crackpot.
By the way, it looks like a lot of anti-gun organizations now owe Mr. Kleck an apology. Just don’t hold your breath waiting for that to happen.
~ American Gun News
A few years ago, more like several now, I was talking with a dentist from some mid-western city, and he told me about a problem he had cured. It seems his office had been broken into and ransacked a few times. He posted a sign on his door in a few languages in which he stated that there were no drugs or money in his suite. That didn’t work, so he bought a recording of a vicious sounding dog that played when the locked door was forced open. Same result. Frustrated, he recorded his 1897 Winchester being racked and chambering a shell. When he again found the door forced open, he carefully peered inside. Nothing had been disturbed.
You know the studies are true. I know the studies are true. The Marxist Democrats DON’T CARE if they are true and WILL IGNORE them because reality gets in the way of their usurpation of power over the masses and public disarmament. We need to learn from the facts, publish them, but push our legislatures to enforce painful consequences of the Rule of
Law against these treasonous traitors. Else they will not stop. They may not stop anyway. We are heading to a Civil War unless we enforce the boundaries. Secession is the only other alternative if the Rule of Law is not enforced. The Marxists Democrats do not care about the Rule of Law or The Constitution. They will only care about the Constitution when they feel the teeth of its enforcement. Else they will continue to ignore it and delude the public with their tactics of majority rules when this is Unconstitutional. A republic exists by a Rule of Law and it’s Constitution, not by majority rule. The Marxists have duped the public into believing that we’re a democracy. As Be Franklin said, a democracy is when two wolves sit down with a sheep to figure out what’s for dinner. In a Republic, the sheep has a gun.
This sheep is loaded to!
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The woman should spend a LOT more time at the pistol range.
I guess George Connectal (above comment) is a staunch Democrat and member of the Ku Klux Klan.
Not just the KKK but the dems following created the first gun control laws both for the intimidation and control
of freedmen (ex-slaves) and their supporters by whatever means including murder.Hitler used the democrat’s KKK as his model for the Nazi’s SA Brownshirts.
George
Could you PLEASE provide LINKS to the studies referred to, otherwise no-one on any side can verify and fact check anything.
And to one of the commenters: leave off the racist language, please, it demeans the dialogue.
“when a burglar hears the Scariest Sound In The Universe (a homeowner racking the slide on a 12-guage in a dark room)” (it’s spelled “gauge”
Sorry, but that’s a well-known myth and a dangerous one to perpetuate seeing as how often thugs hopped up on pills or drugs won’t be paying attention to any sounds when they bust into your home.
Just ask a real gun expert if this is true or not.
It would be great to have links to sources. Thanks!
Was CDC “forced”? If so, by who or by whom or perhaps by what, or were they all to willing?
To Alan the CDC was asked by Obama to do the study. He wanted to prove that not many guns were used in defense of life. When the study finally came out Obama dropped the whole thing.