2aguy
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Tell me... do you know where that 1.5 million number came from? Or are you just repeating what you've read in a NRA brochure?You twist stats to create whatever narrative you want. I don't need to. All I have to do is point out our astronomically high gun crime rate and our high homicide rate.Zuckerberg doesn't want anyone to have guns? Has he ever said that?
And there's nothing wrong with him having bodyguards. Our gun fetish culture has led to there being 400 million+ guns in this country. The best argument against gun control here is that it's easier for someone who wants to kill to get a gun here than anywhere elese in the world. So you might as well have a gun of your own just in case.
And yet 70-80% of gun murder victims are not normal people........they are people who have multiple felony convictions....
and taking your number...4,000,000 million guns in private hands...we had 8,124 gun murders....90% of which were committed by people with multiple felony convictions...
So subract 80% from 8,124 and that means a total of about 1,624 innocent people were murdered with guns.....
so.....400,000,000 million guns in private hands....and 1,624 innocent people murdered with guns......
Can you even begin to see why that is not an issue.....?
Cars accidentally kill 35,000 people.....
Drowning accidentally killed over 3,000 people....
Nothing you believe about guns is true, factual or based in reality....
I have no problem with guns. I've never been againt them and own them myself. But I can't stand you lunatics who worship guns as the answer to all things.
Nope...that is lying by omission....
Americans use guns to actually stop violent criminal attack and to save lives 1,500,000 times a year according to bill clinton and supported by about 13 other studies on self defense with guns.......
I don't twist any stats.....I give the stats, the links and show how you guys lie about guns in this country....
Of course.....I have posted the link to the actual study over and over again...here is a collection of all the gun studies over the last 40 years including that one...I will highlight the bill clinton study....
And notice......not one of them is from the NRA.......
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)....