Armed Citizens are Better & Safer than Armed Police!

[bigrebnc1775]

Armed Citizens are Better & Safer than Armed Police!

Armed Citizens Make Fewer Mistakes Than Police. Police shoot innocent people over 550% more often than armed civilians do. Civilians are there when the crime or altercation began & know who the bad guy is. Police have no clue when they finally arrive on scene & end up shooting the wrong person. Police often live on the edge, they naturally tend to shoot first and ask questions later. The Supreme Court has ruled consistently that the police are not required to protect you.

"Don't think that just because the police are trained in the use of firearms that they are less likely to kill an innocent person. A University of Chicago Study revealed that in 1993 approximately 700,000 police killed 330 innocent individuals, while approximately 250,000,000 private citizens only killed 30 innocent people. Do the math. That's a per capita rate for the police, of almost 4000 times higher than the population in general. OK, that is a little misleading. Let's just include the 80,000,000 gun owning citizens. Now the police are down to only a 1200 times higher accidental shooting rate than the gun-owning population in general.

That still sounds high. So let's look at it in a different light. According to a study by Newsweek magazine, only 2% of civilian shootings involve an innocent person being shot (not killed). The error rate for police is 11%. What this means is that you are more than 5 times more likely to be accidentally shot by a policeman than by an armed citizen. But, when you consider that citizens shoot and kill at least twice as many criminals as do police every year, it means that, per capita, you are more than 11 times more likely to be accidentally shot by a policeman than by an armed citizen. That is as low as I can get that number.

The Kleck study shows that police shoot and kill around 600 criminals each year. Yet the University of Chicago study shows that police killed 330 innocent individuals in 1993. That means that for every two criminals killed by police, one innocent citizen is killed by police. Although I have the greatest respect for the police and how they must respond under pressure, I think that I would much rather trust an armed populace."

Why live here, the populace in Somalia is pretty much all armed? Buy a ticket to Mogadishu and let us know how safe you feel.

Wrong but as usual you expected that didn't you?

 

[Wry Catcher]

Whats that have to do with the United States?

You are free to go to those countries if it makes you sleep better. Well, that's if they have open borders like the US

Be sure to write

-Geaux

No, we're going to fix THIS country, dumbass.

Because the majority of us who don't own guns or responsibly own guns are pretty tired of you gun whacks enabling bad behavior to maximize gun manufacturer profits.

According to you every gun owner is a potential mass killer.

Some are, unless we license all gun owners how can we tell who is and who isn't?

 

[bigrebnc1775]

No, we're going to fix THIS country, dumbass.

Because the majority of us who don't own guns or responsibly own guns are pretty tired of you gun whacks enabling bad behavior to maximize gun manufacturer profits.

According to you every gun owner is a potential mass killer.

Some are, unless we license all gun owners how can we tell who is and who isn't?

No thank you take your license and shove it up your ass.

 

[FireFly]

Armed Citizens are Better & Safer than Armed Police!

Armed Citizens Make Fewer Mistakes Than Police. Police shoot innocent people over 550% more often than armed civilians do. Civilians are there when the crime or altercation began & know who the bad guy is. Police have no clue when they finally arrive on scene & end up shooting the wrong person. Police often live on the edge, they naturally tend to shoot first and ask questions later. The Supreme Court has ruled consistently that the police are not required to protect you.

"Don't think that just because the police are trained in the use of firearms that they are less likely to kill an innocent person. A University of Chicago Study revealed that in 1993 approximately 700,000 police killed 330 innocent individuals, while approximately 250,000,000 private citizens only killed 30 innocent people. Do the math. That's a per capita rate for the police, of almost 4000 times higher than the population in general. OK, that is a little misleading. Let's just include the 80,000,000 gun owning citizens. Now the police are down to only a 1200 times higher accidental shooting rate than the gun-owning population in general.

That still sounds high. So let's look at it in a different light. According to a study by Newsweek magazine, only 2% of civilian shootings involve an innocent person being shot (not killed). The error rate for police is 11%. What this means is that you are more than 5 times more likely to be accidentally shot by a policeman than by an armed citizen. But, when you consider that citizens shoot and kill at least twice as many criminals as do police every year, it means that, per capita, you are more than 11 times more likely to be accidentally shot by a policeman than by an armed citizen. That is as low as I can get that number.

The Kleck study shows that police shoot and kill around 600 criminals each year. Yet the University of Chicago study shows that police killed 330 innocent individuals in 1993. That means that for every two criminals killed by police, one innocent citizen is killed by police. Although I have the greatest respect for the police and how they must respond under pressure, I think that I would much rather trust an armed populace."

Why live here, the populace in Somalia is pretty much all armed? Buy a ticket to Mogadishu and let us know how safe you feel.

Wrong you lying idiot. The US is ranked #1 in guns per capita. Somalia is ranked 66th in guns per capita. You stooges think people will believe the lies if you just keep on repeating them. Maybe that is because you believe the PC lies your party keeps telling you. Sad how you can't think for yourself & believe in truth like I do.