Guy shooting....No law enforcement...Good argument for the 2nd amendment.
Only morons think the answer to mass shootings is more guns. It is like saying the answer to arson is more matches.
Only a real moron would just let himself get shot dead because he didn't have the tools or the balls to protect himself.
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The myth of the good guy with a gun is just that: a myth.
Do you ever get tired of being proven to be an ignorant imbecile?
The Center for Disease Control, in a report ordered by President Obama in 2012 following the Sandy Hook Massacre, estimated that the number of crimes prevented by guns could be as high as 3 million annually, or some 8,200 every day. And there is plenty more evidence showing that guns keep...
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Your opinion based cite is based on
(Cook and Ludwig, 1996 which is based on:
Kleck 1992 which has been debunked.
The Contradictions of the Kleck Study
HEMENWAY CRITICISM OF KLECK
STUDIES SHOWING RISK OF GUNS OUTWEIGH BENEFITS
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE STUDIES CONCERNING DEFENSIVE GUN USES
As for the notion that those using firearms to fend off attackers were more effective in avoiding injury than those using other weapons or no weapons, the DOJ study makes the following exclaimer: "Care should be used in interpreting these data because many aspects of crimes--including victim and offender characteristics, crime circumstances, and offender intent--contribute to victims' injury outcomes."
What is also interesting is that the study notes that "In most cases victims who used firearms to defend themselves or their property were confronted by offenders who were either unarmed or armed with weapons other than firearms." Specifically, only 35% of those who used a firearm in self-defense actually faced an offender who had a gun. DOJ makes no judgments in this study on whether the level of force employed by these individuals was appropriate or consonant with the threat they faced. It may very well be that the presence of firearms in many of these incidents escalated what otherwise might have been non-violent (or non-fatal) encounters.
According to the DOJ study, gun owners also provided criminals with ample opportunities to arm themselves through firearm theft: "From 1987-1992 victims reported an annual average of about 341,000 incidents of firearm theft. Because the NCVS asks for types but not a count of items stolen, the annual total of firearms stolen probably exceeds the number of incidents." It should also be noted that there is no federal law requiring the reporting of lost and stolen firearms, and almost no state laws in this regard. There are undoubtedly thousands of stolen firearms that go entirely unreported every year.
The problem with Kleck's figures was he used ALL uses of firearms including LE and Military and used them in his Civilian figures. If his figures had been correct, if I were to walk to my favorite quick stop, I would have to shoot my way all the way there, shoot my way while in the store and then shoot my way all the way back home.