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Defensive gun use (DGU) happens more regularly in the United States than gun crimes, according to data the\u00a0Centers for Disease Control<\/a>\u00a0(CDC) never publicized. \u00a0 \u00a0http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/04\/22\/guns-save-lives-cdc-never-publicized\/\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Florida State University criminologist\u00a0Gary Kleck<\/a>\u00a0has been arguing that point for a quarter of a century, saying that his own research led him to believe that DGU was far more prevalent than gun-control advocates claim.<\/p>\n The CDC\u2019s data, collected a few years after Kleck\u2019s survey, appears to corroborate his findings, Reason.com reported. The question asked in the CDC survey addressed the use or threatened use of a firearm to deter a crime.\u00a0\u201cDuring the last 12 months, have you confronted another person with a firearm, even if you did not fire it, to protect yourself, your property, or someone else?\u201d<\/p>\n Kleck, upon reviewing the CDC\u2019s data,\u00a0noted<\/a>\u00a0just how close it came to mirroring his own.<\/p>\n The final adjusted prevalence of 1.24% therefore implies that in an average year during 1996\u20131998, 2.46 million U.S. adults used a gun for self-defense. This estimate, based on an enormous sample of 12,870 cases (unweighted) in a nationally representative sample, strongly confirms the 2.5 million past-12-months estimate obtained Kleck and Gertz (1995)\u2026.CDC\u2019s results, then, imply that guns were used defensively by victims about 3.6 times as often as they were used offensively by criminals.<\/p>\n