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Sunday, July 21, 2013

CDC: Armed Victims Less Likely to be Harmed by Attackers

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A $10 million government report on gun violence ordered by President Barack Obama has concluded that people who are armed are less likely to be harmed by their attackers.
President Barack Obama issued an executive order in January calling for the report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“Recent, highly publicized, tragic mass shootings in Newtown, Conn.; Aurora, Colo..; Oak Creek, Wisc. and Tucson, Ariz., have sharpened the American public’s interest in protecting our children and communities from the harmful effects of firearm violence,” according to the report.
The document — “Priorities For Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence” — reports “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.”

Post Continues: http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Guns-Self-Defense-CDC-NRA/2013/07/20/id/516128

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