Guns - a list

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Most, if not all, of the conservatives subscribing to this thread are doing more to undermine Second Amendment rights than protecting them.

Please stop ‘helping.’

 

[bigrebnc1775]

most, if not all, of the conservatives subscribing to this thread are doing more to undermine second amendment rights than protecting them.

Please stop ‘helping.’

saying that is just a repeated lie.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

What percent of guns in the U.S. are used in crimes each year?

What percent of LEGALLY purchased guns are used in crime? Our southern and northern borders as well as our coasts are open to any smuggler. Hell millions of people ( much bigger then a gun ) cross our borders illegally every year.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Most, if not all, of the conservatives subscribing to this thread are doing more to undermine Second Amendment rights than protecting them.

Please stop ‘helping.’

Have you ever explained why rights have limitations unless they don't?

 

[Quantum Windbag]

What percent of guns in the U.S. are used in crimes each year?

What percent of cars are used in crimes?

 

[PoliticalChic]

Keep and Bear Arms - Gun Owners Home Page - 2nd Amendment Supporters


Here is a hundred or more examples of armed citizens saving lives, defending property or themselves.

Seriously? See the post above for a dose of reality.

According to the National Self Defense Survey conducted by Florida State University criminologists in 1994, the rate of Defensive Gun Uses can be projected nationwide to approximately 2.5 million per year -- one Defensive Gun Use every 13 seconds.

Among 15.7% of gun defenders interviewed nationwide during The National Self Defense Survey, the defender believed that someone "almost certainly" would have died had the gun not been used for protection -- a life saved by a privately held gun about once every 1.3 minutes. (In another 14.2% cases, the defender believed someone "probably" would have died if the gun hadn't been used in defense.)

In 83.5% of these successful gun defenses, the attacker either threatened or used force first -- disproving the myth that having a gun available for defense wouldn't make any difference.

In 91.7% of these incidents the defensive use of a gun did not wound or kill the criminal attacker (and the gun defense wouldn't be called "newsworthy" by newspaper or TV news editors). In 64.2% of these gun-defense cases, the police learned of the defense, which means that the media could also find out and report on them if they chose to.

In 73.4% of these gun-defense incidents, the attacker was a stranger to the intended victim. (Defenses against a family member or intimate were rare -- well under 10%.) This disproves the myth that a gun kept for defense will most likely be used against a family member or someone you love.

In over half of these gun defense incidents, the defender was facing two or more attackers -- and three or more attackers in over a quarter of these cases. (No means of defense other than a firearm -- martial arts, pepper spray, or stun guns -- gives a potential victim a decent chance of getting away uninjured when facing multiple attackers.)

In 79.7% of these gun defenses, the defender used a concealable handgun. A quarter of the gun defenses occured in places away from the defender's home.

Source: "Armed Resistance to Crime: The Prevalence and Nature of Self-Defense with a Gun," by Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz, in The Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, Northwestern University School of Law, Volume 86, Number 1, Fall, 1995

 

[TakeAStepBack]

Police: Clerk shoots suspect in Shelbyville gas station robbery - fox59.com

Police: Clerk shoots suspect in Shelbyville gas station robbery
The wounded suspect was transported to IU Health Methodist Hospital in unknown condition

By Braden Walker
11:59 p.m. EST, December 3, 2012

Shelbyville, Ind.

A gas station attendant shoots one suspect during an attempted robbery in Shelbyville, Ind.

Shelbyville Police Lt. Michael Turner told Fox59 two men tried to take control of an employee during a robbery attempt around 9:20 p.m. Monday.

It happened at the Bonded CountryMark station located in the 200 block of East Broadway St.

During the struggle, the attendant was able to locate a gun and fire and injure one of the two suspects.

Both suspects ran away from the gas station after the attempted robbery.

 

[Politico]

Arthur I've been reading your dribble. How about this. If you don't like guns don't buy one.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Most, if not all, of the conservatives subscribing to this thread are doing more to undermine Second Amendment rights than protecting them.

Please stop ‘helping.’

Another brilliant, pity post from claypot.

Here, let me offer one that packs almost as much punch:

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

 

[Two Thumbs]

Why do liberals hate freedom?

 

[Wry Catcher]

The gun nuts are out in force.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

The gun nuts are out in force.

As long as gun grabbers like you are out we'll stay.

 

[TakeAStepBack]

Shotgun robber no match for victim with handgun - 12 News KBMT and K-JAC. News, Weather and Sports for SE Texas

Shotgun robber no match for victim with handgun

Posted: Aug 11, 2012 10:35 AM EDT
By David Ingram - email

Police say an armed robber got more than he bargained for Friday night when he targeted the wrong victim.

Just after 10 p.m. a 36-year-old man was confronted by a robber with a shotgun in the parking lot of the Walgreens located in the 3600 block of College. The man said the robber held the shotgun to his head and demanded money.

The man, a concealed handgun license holder, was able to get his handgun and fired one shot at the would-be robber. The robber dropped his shotgun and took off running fleeing south behind the store. The intended victim was not injured during this confrontation and he did not lose any property.

Patrol Officers set up a perimeter and with the assistance of our K-9 Unit began to search for the robber. An officer saw a man hiding behind a business near the area of Interstate 10 and Corley. The man matched the description of the robber. Police say the man also had a gunshot wound to his hip.

The original victim positively identified this man as the robber.

Beaumont EMS took the injured suspect to Christus Hospital St. Elizabeth for treatment. Officers then took him to the county jail. He has been charged with aggravated robbery as well as two outstanding warrants for burglary of a habitation and a pending warrant for a previous unrelated aggravated robbery.

Officers also found a vehicle near the scene of the robbery that had been reported stolen.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

The gun nuts are out in force.

You asked for examples where guns were successfully used to defend and then criticize those posts, GO FIGURE.

 

[TakeAStepBack]

Tards will Tard.

 

[TakeAStepBack]

West Knoxville man shoots suspect during home invasion

West Knoxville man shoots suspect during home invasion

KNOXVILLE (WATE) - A West Knoxville man shot a suspect in the chest during a home invasion Friday morning.

Homeowner Gary Berthiaume, 59, of Lance Drive, told police he was sitting on his back porch when he noticed a man peering through the window in his front door.

Berthiaume went inside his house to get a handgun, but when he opened the door, two suspects rushed in and attacked him, forcing him back into a foyer area.

He then fired one shot, striking one of the suspects in the upper chest. Both suspects then fled the scene.

Berthiaume was taken to University of Tennessee Medical Center for minor injuries.

Several minutes later, a man with a gunshot wound to the upper chest arrived at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center.

 

[jtpr312]

60,000,0000 Soviet citizens would tell you all about how it is to live under a govt, in a nation, where the civilian population is unarmed....................if they had not been executed by their masters, who where the only ones that where allowed to own guns. So when you get to number 60,000,001, drop me an e0mail, I'll start replying to your asinine post then.

 

[TakeAStepBack]

Chalk Up Another One for Gun Owners - Blogcritics Politics

Last Thursday in Salt Lake City, Utah, a gun toting citizen single-handedly ended the stabbing spree of a knife wielding maniac. The incident happened in a grocery store in the downtown area of the city. The suspect apparently purchased a knife in the store and used it as a weapon to stab two people in the foyer of the store. Before he could find a third victim, the man with the concealed gun pulled it on him and told him to drop his weapon or he would shoot him. The assailant dropped the knife and the grocery store’s employees restrained him until the police arrived.

By all accounts the gun toting citizen prevented what could have been widespread carnage. In fact, Salt Lake City Police Department Lt. Brian Purvis said, "This was a volatile situation that could have gotten worse. We can only assume from what we saw it could have gotten worse. He was definitely in the right place at the right time."

Bravo for the Second Amendment! The reason injuries were prevented and lives saved is that as Americans we have the ability to defend ourselves and others through the Second Amendment right to own guns. You see, it is impossible for the police to be everywhere at all times protecting us from bad guys. Given that we are supposedly still a free society, why would we want cops to be present on every street corner anyway?

 

[Arthur]

I don't like the fact that it's unacceptable to comment on gun culture.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

I don't like the fact that it's unacceptable to comment on gun culture.

Who stopped you from commenting, you fucking retard?