Episode Details

The CDC has quietly restored estimates showing that Americans use firearms defensively between 60,000 and 2.5 million times every year. But the bigger story is why those statistics disappeared in the first place.

Mark Walters examines the private pressure placed on CDC officials by gun-control advocates, including Gun Violence Archive executive director Mark Bryant. Previously released communications showed advocates objecting to the defensive-gun-use estimates and arguing that the numbers were obstructing new gun-control policies.

Were the statistics removed because better research became available—or because the numbers undermined the preferred political narrative?

Mark breaks down the controversy, the enormous gap between competing defensive-gun-use estimates, and why counting only cases reported by police or the media misses defensive encounters in which a firearm stops a crime without being fired.

This episode exposes the battle over who controls America’s gun statistics—and why recognizing lawful defensive gun use matters to every Second Amendment supporter.

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