Guns are used far more often to prevent crimes, than to kill

[Little-Acorn]

Actually, guns are used far more often to prevent crimes, than to kill.

A number of studies have found that people by the millions have used their guns to keep someone from threatening, robbing, injuring, or killing them... usually without a shot being fired.

And those are just the time such acts have been reported. How many times have people been threatened, and then put a hand on a gun they were carrying, or taken out the gun, only to see the criminals turn and run... and NOT reported to the police that they, in turn, had threatened the criminal? Many probably just let things go on - no harm, no foul, why risk having the police take your gun when you did nothing wrong?

And how many times did some guy who wanted to mug an old lady, knock over a store, of shoot up a shopping mall, turn away when he found out there were armed guards (or other armed people) nearby? You won't find those incidents listed in statistics... but they are more common that the gun-haters want to admit. And they are definitely times when people having guns, stopped crimes.

President Obama commissioned a study by the Centers for Disease Control, treating "gun violence" as a "disease", to find how often guns were used. He apparently didn't like the result of the study - it has never been mentioned in any news reports, except a few back-page stories below the ads for cabbages. CDC Gun Violence Study Didn't Give Obama White House Outcome It Wanted - Investors.com

And President Bill Clinton's Justice Dept. under Attorney General Janet Reno, did a study on gun usage, only to find that ordinary people used guns literally millions of times every year, to ward off or deter criminals. Again, usually without a shot being fired.
https://www.ncjrs.gov/txtfiles/165476.txt

People who wail about the horror of "gun crimes", never mention these facts. But the fact remains that we a re a lot better off with guns, than without them.

Guns are used to kill, comparatively rarely. They are used to stop crimes, far more often. How many more innocent people would be injured or killed if they, or law-abiding people around them, did not have a gun?

 

[The Professor]

Good job, Little-Acorn. I offer the following in support of your position:

“A 1993 nationwide survey of 4,977 households found that over the previous five years, at least 0.5% of households had members who had used a gun for defense during a situation in which they thought someone 'almost certainly would have been killed' if they 'had not used a gun for protection.' Applied to the U.S. population, this amounts to 162,000 such incidents per year. This figure excludes all 'military service, police work, or work as a security guard.'"

Gun Control - Just Facts

Note: A sample size of 4,977 is statistically significant. Most national surveys are based upon a sample size of 1,000. There is compelling evidence that gun ownerships saves lives - a hell of a lot of lives - and only a fool would desire that innocent people die solely to promote an anti-gun agenda.

 

[ClosedCaption]

President Obama commissioned a study by the Centers for Disease Control, treating "gun violence" as a "disease", to find how often guns were used. He apparently didn't like the result of the study - it has never been mentioned in any news reports, except a few back-page stories below the ads for cabbages. CDC Gun Violence Study Didn't Give Obama White House Outcome It Wanted - Investors.com

Wait, the CDC did a study?

Congressman Whose Amendment Ended Federal Gun Research: 'I Have Regrets' | US Message Board - Political Discussion Forum

Since there isnt a link to the study and a quote from the congressman who prevented the CDC from doing gun research...I'm going to have to calll BS on this part of the OP

 

[Little-Acorn]

Since there isnt a link to the study

(yawn)

http://www.nap.edu/read/18319/chapter/1

I didn't expect the liberals to do any actual research. They prefer to avoid the truth whenever possible.

 

[Little-Acorn]

As usual, most liberals are avoiding this thread like the plague. The few that do touch it, get burned... as they should.

Two government studies, from the Clinton administration and the Obama administration, both reaching the same conclusion: Guns are used to prevent crimes far more often than they are used to commit them.

Liberals don't want to hear that, though.

 

[Little-Acorn]

“A 1993 nationwide survey of 4,977 households found that over the previous five years, at least 0.5% of households had members who had used a gun for defense during a situation in which they thought someone 'almost certainly would have been killed' if they 'had not used a gun for protection.' Applied to the U.S. population, this amounts to 162,000 such incidents per year. This figure excludes all 'military service, police work, or work as a security guard.'"

BTW, in most of these incidents, the gun was never fired. The person defending himself only showed the gun, on merely mentioned it without showing it.

In most of the rare times the gun was fired, it was fired into the air (warning shot).

 

[Little-Acorn]

As usual, most liberals are avoiding this thread like the plague. The few that do touch it, get burned... as they should.

Two government studies, from the Clinton administration and the Obama administration, both reaching the same conclusion: Guns are used to prevent crimes far more often than they are used to commit them.

Liberals don't want to hear that, though.

 

[Little-Acorn]

President Obama commissioned a study by the Centers for Disease Control, treating "gun violence" as a "disease", to find how often guns were used. He apparently didn't like the result of the study - it has never been mentioned in any news reports, except a few back-page stories below the ads for cabbages. CDC Gun Violence Study Didn't Give Obama White House Outcome It Wanted - Investors.com

And President Bill Clinton's Justice Dept. under Attorney General Janet Reno, did a study on gun usage, only to find that ordinary people used guns literally millions of times every year, to ward off or deter criminals. Again, usually without a shot being fired.
https://www.ncjrs.gov/txtfiles/165476.txt

People who wail about the horror of "gun crimes", never mention these facts. But the fact remains that we are a lot better off with guns, than without them.

 

[Desperado]

Quit trying to convince brain dead liberals with facts.
If it is not in line with what their masters taught them it falls on deaf ears