The CDC Report You Haven’t Seen

Liberals love to say that gun control research is outlawed. It’s the silliest thing in the world considering former President Obama himself commissioned the CDC to heavily research the topic while he was in power. When they told him what they found, he made the executive decision to ban any funding for more CDC research on gun crime.

He also worked hard to keep the research buried and forgotten. Well, now that Obama is out of the White House, the cat is out of the bag, and you can see for yourself exactly what Obama tried to hide. You think you know what to expect, but you have no idea.

This isn’t CNN. We’re going to be honest and fair about this discussion. Firearms are used in a lot of crimes in the U.S. every year. No amount of faith in the 2nd Amendment can change that truth. Roughly 13,000 homicides are committed at gunpoint every year. An additional 60,000 to 70,000 nonfatal violent crimes also involve firearms. If you’ve ever come across a liberal in your life, you’ll know that compared to most advanced countries, these numbers are abnormal and huge.

When you add it all together, as many as 100,000 crimes are committed every year with firearms (not all are classified as violent). Guns are a part of the majority of homicides and suicides, and they make any violent crime more likely to turn deadly. You know all of this, but it’s vital that we recognize the raw numbers. Stay with us, because these facts are going to be extremely important in a minute.

The Good

Now, let’s cover what you don’t know. Firearms are used every single day by regular citizens to stop crime. Sure, you’ve browsed some media outlets and seen a handful of “good guys with guns” stories. They don’t cover a scant fraction of the truth. The CDC and affiliate researchers looked deeply into the issue, and their conclusions were unanimous: guns stop way more crime than they commit.

How skewed are the numbers? A minimum of 300,000 crimes are stopped by everyday citizens every year. This doesn’t include crimes stopped by law enforcement wielding guns. It’s just average property owners, NRA members and 2nd Amendment supporting Americans. And, 300,000 is the absolute low-end estimate.

According to the CDC, gun owners could be halting as many as 2 million crimes every year. Why is the range so large? It’s pretty obvious when you think about it. In the vast majority of cases, simply brandishing a weapon is enough to diffuse the situation. Not all of these incidents include an official police report. The CDC compared FBI data, police logs and surveys to compile their numbers, hence the uncertainty.

Let’s take stock. In 2015 (the last year where data is no longer being revised), there were just over 1 million violent crimes in the U.S. Remember, only a tenth of those were committed with guns. In that same year, as many as 2 million were prevented. Now, here’s the ultimate kicker. Most violent crimes involve more than one person. That means gun owners have easily saved hundreds of thousands of lives every year. If the extreme is true, tens of millions of people in the U.S. might owe their lives to civilian gun owners.

Be honest. You knew gun owners were doing well, but you had no idea it was to this extent. Neither do the liberals touting gun control.

The Ugly

Let’s revisit something. This study was done by the CDC at the direct request of Obama while he was President. Do you really think he spent all of that money and then didn’t read the findings? He knew for the last three years of his presidency that gun ownership was the single biggest crime stopping force in the country. And still, he promoted divisive gun control policies.

What’s more is that enough people were involved that the government couldn’t have kept this quiet on their own. The liberal run mainstream media had to be complicit. That probably doesn’t surprise you, but really think about the magnitude of this situation. An Obama-ordered research initiative unequivocally proved that the 2nd Amendment is saving lives — possibly to the tune of millions a year — and he still pushed to disarm citizens. He was still backed by all mainstream media outlets. They literally chose their narrative over American lives. It might be possible to forgive gun control advocates their ignorance. That can’t be said for the active deception of Obama and his supporters in media.

Fighting the False Narrative

The left is unified in their claim that more guns equate to more violence and death. Their own research completely disproves the narrative. This isn’t like climate change that mostly suffers from huge unknowns. Gun research is a known. It’s well defined, and the proof aligns exactly with what we conservatives have said all along. When citizens can properly defend themselves, crime plummets.

Liberal’s narrative deceptively only looks at gun crime statistics. When you look at overall crime, America is entirely unexceptional. We have comparable crime rates to any other developed nation. Our crimes tend to involve more guns. Not more deaths. Not more injuries. Just more guns. And now, we know that it would be a lot worse if the left had their way.

We have to fight back. We have to share this research and these numbers as often and loudly as we can. Every time a liberal talks about gun crime, go to the numbers. Remind them that while America has high gun crime, it’s overall crime is right in the middle of developed nations. Show them that the CDC, at Obama’s request, proved that gun owners are deterring far more crime than is actually occurring.

Show them that the good guys with guns currently outnumber the bad guys, and that it is keeping America safe. This is despite loose borders, overwhelmingly generous immigration laws, unique gang problems and a slew of other obstacles that only exist in our country. After you force them to acknowledge Obama’s unquestionable research on the subject, offer to take them to the range and teach them to shoot.

We can’t win this war by acting like liberals. We’ll stick to the truth. We’ll patiently educate the fanatics who align against us. Most importantly, we’ll keep bankrupting the fake news outlets and vote en masse to keep corrupt politicians like Obama out of office.


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