The Charleston church mass killer used two handguns. No assault weapon.
The Roseburg, Oregon mass killer used five handguns. No assault weapon.
The Virginia Tech mass killer used two handguns. No assault weapon.
The Isla Vista mass killer used two knives, three handguns, and a BMW sedan. No assault weapon.
The Fort Hood mass killer used two handguns. No assault weapon.
The Washington Navy Yard mass killer used a shotgun and a handgun. No assault weapon.
What about Newtown? Columbine? San Bernardino? Aurora? Wouldn't it be nice if at least 50% of these crimes didn't happen in the first place?
According to the Department of Justice in the 1990s....under bill clinton......Americans use guns to stop violent criminal attack, and to save lives, and even to stop mass shooters, 1,500,000 times a year...
yeah..that is a lot more than 50%.....
You're like the other twit, point to independent studies or be ignored as far as "info" dispersal goes.
**** you asswipe....
Here are a whole bunch of gun studies...both government and private......
.which were conducted by different researchers, from both private and public researchers, over a period of 40 years looking specifically at guns and self defense....the name of the researcher is first, then the year then the number of times they determined guns were used for self defense......notice how many of them there are and how many of them were done by gun grabbers like the clinton Justice Dept. and the obama CDC
And these aren't all of the studies either...there are more...and they support the ones below.....
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)....