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To: RetiredNow who wrote (1066871)	4/25/2018 3:41:23 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 1579674

Having dealt with thousands of people in projects that often entered the boundaries of technology it is clear there are extremely few who are expert. The government and universities are rarely the home of any kind of experts as a percentage of those with qualification that some believe might suggest otherwise. They are bureaucracies. Your naivete and science stupidity blind you to the reality that only with full transparency can honest assessments be made. Are the humans that make up the EPA any different than those who make up Phillip Morris. Do you trust the FBI with total secrecy of conduct? Now did the CDC hide this info. How transparent of them. reason.com Many people who support gun control are angry that the federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are not legally allowed to use money from Congress to do research whose purpose is "to advocate or promote gun control." (This is not the same as doing no research into gun violence, though it seems to discourage many potential recipients of CDC money.) But in the 1990s, the CDC itself did look into one of the more controversial questions in gun social science: How often do innocent Americans use guns in self-defense, and how does that compare to the harms guns can cause in the hands of violent criminals? Foter.com Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck conducted the most thorough previously known survey data on the question in the 1990s. His study, which has been harshly disputed in pro-gun-control quarters, indicated that there were more than 2.2 million such defensive uses of guns (DGUs) in America a year. Now Kleck has unearthed some lost CDC survey data on the question. The CDC essentially confirmed Kleck's results. But Kleck didn't know about that until now, because the CDC never reported what it found. Kleck's new paper—" What Do CDC's Surveys Say About the Frequency of Defensive Gun Uses?"**—finds that the agency had asked about DGUs in its Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System in 1996, 1997, and 1998.

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