UPDATE: You will note the original link doesn't work right now. It was pointed out to me by Robert VerBruggen of National Review that Kleck treats the CDC's surveys discussed in this paper as if they were national in scope, as Kleck's original survey was, but they apparently were not. From VerBruggen's own looks at CDC's raw data, it seems that over the course of the three years, the following 15 states were surveyed: Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, Ohio, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. (Those states, from 2000 census data, contained around 27 percent of the U.S. population.) Informed of this, Kleck says /quote he will recalculate the degree to which CDC's survey work indeed matches or corroborates his, and we will publish a discussion of those fresh results when they come in. But for now Kleck has pulled the original paper from the web pending his rethinking the data and his conclusions.
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- Mon Apr 23, 2018 1:02 pm
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Re: CDC did not publish data supporting Gary Kleck’s DGU estimates
The link that I posted worked originally, but click has withdrawn the paper temporarily. If you go to the bottom of the Reason article, you will find the following appended:
- Sat Apr 21, 2018 12:30 pm
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CDC did not publish data supporting Gary Kleck’s DGU estimates
In 1995 Gary Kleck published a study showing that civilian Americans used guns to defend themselves approximately 2.5 million times per year. This far exceeds the number of criminal gun uses.
The study was quite “controversial.”
The next year the centers for disease control began collecting data on defensive gun uses in three surveys in 1996, 1997, and 1998. The data, when analyzed, support Kleck’s estimate of civilian DGUs and the fact that this far exceeds the number of criminal uses.
The CDC never published, released, or acknowledged the data.
Gary Kleck just recently found the CDC surveys. He published a study of the data here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ... id=3124326
Reason’s article on this is here:
http://reason.com/blog/2018/04/20/cdc-p ... t-plenty-o
The study was quite “controversial.”
The next year the centers for disease control began collecting data on defensive gun uses in three surveys in 1996, 1997, and 1998. The data, when analyzed, support Kleck’s estimate of civilian DGUs and the fact that this far exceeds the number of criminal uses.
The CDC never published, released, or acknowledged the data.
Gary Kleck just recently found the CDC surveys. He published a study of the data here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ... id=3124326
Reason’s article on this is here:
http://reason.com/blog/2018/04/20/cdc-p ... t-plenty-o