I am proud that 1.6 million Americans have stopped violent attacks and saved peoples lives, while only 8-9,000 gun murders happen each year in a country of over 310 million people....
1.6 million criminals defending against other criminals according to kleck. You are proud of a bunch of armed criminals? That is messed up.
That is a lie Brain....kleck said no such thing....he specifically stated that some people in the study were carrying guns for protection from criminals even though in the 90s it was against the law in some of those states....
You are lying when you imply that career criminals committing crimes are the majority of those cases.....
Then Kleck is lying:
Kleck:
"This is true because DGUs typically involve criminal behavior, such as unlawful gun possession, by the gun-using victim, who therefore is often unwilling to report the incident."
And Kleck stated this....
Guns and Self-Defense by Gary Kleck Ph.D.
The authors concluded that defensive uses of guns are about three to four times as common as criminal uses of guns. The National Self-Defense Survey confirmed the picture of frequent defensive gun use implied by the results of earlier, less sophisticated surveys.
And this....
Kleck:
"This is true because DGUs typically involve criminal behavior, such as unlawful gun possession, by the gun-using victim, who therefore is often unwilling to report the incident."
Goes directly to law abiding citizens carrying guns to protect themselves from violent criminals when the laws, in the 90s, violated their constitutional rights to self defense....not gang member or career criminals involved in crime......
But he counts criminals defending themselves as a defense.
From the Cato white paper looking at 5,000 reported gun uses for self defense from 2003-2011, not exactly scientific but it does address certain issues....
http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/WP-Tough-Targets.pdf
How Many Defensive Gun Uses by Drug Dealers?
A commonly held view among skeptics of defensive gun uses is that many—perhaps most—involve criminals defending them- selves from other criminals, such as drug dealers who are stealing from rival dealers. Without question, there are stories that fit that description—or where you can read be- tween the lines and get that impression. In February 2008 Washington residents Mar- cus Bradford, Khiry Jackson, and Lawrence Adams went to steal drugs and money from Luis Acevedo. Acevedo shot Bradford to death. While Acevedo was still facing charg- es, it was not for shooting Bradford—but for the drugs that Bradford and his associates were there to steal.59
Still, such stories seem to be sufficiently rare that the data set does not have a separate category for drug dealers defending them- selves. A search for the string “drug dealer” in the database found only nine news stories. It is entirely possible that police responding to shootings involving known drug dealers are less inclined to give such individuals the benefit of the doubt on questionable shoot- ings—but still, the overwhelming majority of defensive gun use stories involve ordinary and decent people defending themselves against criminals.
Armed and Female
Some of the other categories are unsur- prising. There are 154 defensive gun use sto- ries involving women.60 On April 29, 2010, two Colorado residents used pistols to deal with an intruder. Avi Manges grabbed her .38-caliber revolver when she heard an in-
truder. “I hollered, ‘Who’s there? I’ve got a gun.’” The intruder fled after seeing her— and her pistol.61 The intruder actually at- tempted to enter a nearby dwelling, where he was confronted and then detained by an- other pistol-wielding homeowner.62
In February 2010 an Albuquerque, New Mexico, woman called 911 to report a break- in attempt—and while she was on the phone to police, two men forced their way into the house. She shot one of them in the head.63
On June 9, 2009, Marty Impastato react- ed to a home invasion in Southern Illinois. She confronted an acquaintance who gained entry through an unlocked window and was rifling through the “safe where the family keeps jewelry and prescription drugs.” Im- pastato shot the intruder.64
It is difficult to say whether the relatively sparse population of armed females repre- sents news media selection bias or simply the disparity between women and men on gun ownership. Women represent a more attractive target to male criminals, either be- cause they are on average smaller and weaker or because the criminal is looking for a rape victim.
Rape
There are 25 news stories where rapists discovered that the victim was able to fight back. Take the case of a Charlotte, North Carolina, woman who, after being raped, disarmed her attacker and then held him for the police. It was later found that the perpetrator had “an extensive criminal his- tory, dating back 20 years, and many of the offenses involved sexual conduct with chil- dren.”65
Sometimes a gun prevents a rape from happening again. On October 31, 2008, a Missouri woman shot and killed Ronnie W. Preyer, 47, “a registered sex offender who had broken into her home early one morn- ing with the intention of raping her a sec- ond time.”66
Shockingly, when it comes to resisting sexual assault, resources are few and effec- tive armed resistance is not considered an
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9 stories from 5,000 where drug dealers fought each other and used guns defensively.....hmmmm.....