There is no real way to estimate the number of DGUs when you have no statistics on the number of those instances where the mere display of a firearm ended the event.
Exactly my point. Was that a real criminal attempt, or was it just a scary black man some redneck waved a gun at and called it a DGU? The point is there IS no Data, just a lot of bullshit estimates commissioned by the NRA and other gun groups, who of course, are going to find what they want.
And they will be about as credible as those oldy time surveys of Doctors who said smoking was healthy.
You might find out how reality works if you ever manage to disarm the honest citizens. Of course the criminals would keep their weapons because they don’t follow laws. It doesn’t take a crystal ball to predict skyrocketing cirme and home invasions.
Actually, we ALREADY know how that works by disarming citizens. We can look at Japan, which has almost no gun homicides (and very few of any other kind) because private citizens haven't been allowed to own guns since the Meiji Reformation. We can look at the UK, which has a very low murder rate. We can even look at Canada, which has some private gun ownership, but it's regulated. They have very few murders.
Our nation would likely end up like Mexico which has strict gun laws and drug cartels armed with fully automatic firearms and other military weapons. The liberals in our nation would love to have gun laws like Mexico.
Well, no, we'd want ones that are actually enforced. The problem with Mexico is that we have a shitload of gun shops on the Mexican border, and 250,000 US guns are smuggled in every year.
Yes, the gun did prevent a crime at the store with the armed clerk. It could have also prevented the clerk being shot by the bad guy.
Using your argument there are no DGUs if the bad guy flees when he sees his victim is armed. Nobody was killed or wounded.
Yup, that's exactly my argument. You see, if neither the clerk or the robber are armed, you have no incident.
Those “bullshit” reports may well have been accurate. Just because they don’t prove your argument does not mean they are wrong.
Actually, here's how I know they aren't terribly accurate.
Every fucking day, I read from Ammosexuals like 2AGuy and yourself all your wank fantasies about wanting to shoot bad guys. You all treat guys like Zimmerman and Rittenhouse like national heroes when they stumbled into incidents where they shot people without any good reason, but were acquitted due to white privilege.
But according to the FBI, only 200 people are killed in "Self-Defense" homicides by civilians with guns. And many of those are domestic battery, not robberies.
So if you accept the 1 million DGU number as accurate, then you'd have to believe that 999,800 of those times, an ammosexual with a gun finally gets that happy day when he can plug him a darkie, and he doesn't do it.
Nope, it's laughable.
