02-26-2014, 04:14 AM
Never mind, I realize now that the CDC has questionable stats:
http://www.businessinsider.com/nra-gun-r...ics-2013-1
"Since there is a lack of funding for independent research, the gun debate has been lacking in unimpeachable statistics that could effect a change in the status quo, and that plays directly into the hands of people opposed to changes to make gun laws more comprehensive.
Even today, the NRA is pushing flawed statistics that are a direct result of this de-funding. Today, they'll cite Center for Disease Control fatal injury report statistics over several decades. The issue here is that the CDC explicitly says that fatal injury reports data from 1999 onward cannot be compared to years prior, because the way the CDC was forced to research incidents of firearms deaths changed drastically after the 1996 de-funding."
and the source of that data?....
http://www.businessinsider.com/nra-gun-r...ics-2013-1
"Since there is a lack of funding for independent research, the gun debate has been lacking in unimpeachable statistics that could effect a change in the status quo, and that plays directly into the hands of people opposed to changes to make gun laws more comprehensive.
Even today, the NRA is pushing flawed statistics that are a direct result of this de-funding. Today, they'll cite Center for Disease Control fatal injury report statistics over several decades. The issue here is that the CDC explicitly says that fatal injury reports data from 1999 onward cannot be compared to years prior, because the way the CDC was forced to research incidents of firearms deaths changed drastically after the 1996 de-funding."
Speedy wrote:
Just pulled it out of thin air. But good catch, max, because it is 30k+ per year, not 25k.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/injury.htm
[quote=max]
[quote=Speedy]
the 25k gun deaths every year.
and the source of that data?....