Yeah..except actual research shows you are talking out of your ass. Again...1,500,000 times a year Americans use guns...this is according to the Department of Justice and the Centers for Disease control...and about a dozen other studies.
The FBI says it's 47,000. I think even THAT number is inflated. They also say that the number of justified homicides with a gun is about 200 a year.
Most of the time, the criminal runs away or gives up....only in the really stupid criminals is it necessary to shoot them.
And that's why it's not credible. You see, you ******* gun nuts get on here ALL ******* DAY fantasizing about pulling out that gun you got you a CCA for and shooting you a darkie.... er, criminal. Yeah. Criminal. Well, I'm sure the two words are interchangeable in your mind.
And then that happy day comes when you can do that, and you don't?
You have that opportunity 47,000 or 1,500,000 times a year, and only 200 times do you manage to win the Zimmerman Prize of shooting you a Darkie and getting away with it?
It's just not credible.
And you know the extent of the research on this topic....it shows you are making things up out of your ass, because the research doesn't support anything you say.....
Self defense with a gun......40 years of actual research...first is the name of the group that conducted the research, then the year, then the number of defensive gun uses and finally wether the research contained police or military defensive gun uses....
A quick guide to the studies and the numbers.....the full lay out of what was studied by each study is in the links....
GunCite-Gun Control-How Often Are Guns Used in Self-Defense
GunCite Frequency of Defensive Gun Use in Previous Surveys
Field...1976....3,052,717 ( no cops, military)
DMIa 1978...2,141,512 ( no cops, military)
L.A. TIMES...1994...3,609,68 ( no cops, military)
Kleck......1994...2.5 million ( no cops, military)
Obama's CDC....2013....500,000--3million
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Bordua...1977...1,414,544
DMIb...1978...1,098,409 ( no cops, military)
Hart...1981...1.797,461 ( no cops, military)
Mauser...1990...1,487,342 ( no cops, military)
Gallup...1993...1,621,377 ( no cops, military)
DEPT. OF JUSTICE...1994...1.5 million ( the bill clinton study)
Journal of Quantitative Criminology--- 989,883 times per year."
(Based on survey data from a 2000 study published in the
Journal of Quantitative Criminology,
[17] U.S. civilians use guns to defend themselves and others from crime at least 989,883 times per year.
[18])
Paper: "Measuring Civilian Defensive Firearm Use: A Methodological Experiment." By David McDowall and others.
Journal of Quantitative Criminology, March 2000.
Measuring Civilian Defensive Firearm Use: A Methodological Experiment - Springer
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Ohio...1982...771,043
Gallup...1991...777,152
Tarrance... 1994... 764,036 (no cops, military)
Lawerence Southwich Jr. 400,000 fewer violent crimes and at least 800,000 violent crimes deterred..
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If you take the studies from that Kleck cites in his paper, 16 of them....and you only average the ones that exclude military and police shootings..the average becomes 2 million...I use those studies because I have the details on them...and they are still 10 studies (including Kleck's)....