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2.5M cases is not insignificant, but because it is a made up number, it is therefore invalid. 50K cases is insignificant. 50K - 2.5M... really? I am insulted! I've let the 33 other posts in which this fiction is thrown around go unchallenged, but when you actually try to transfer some significance to your NRA propaganda by linking it to legitimate research.... well my blood boils... cease and desist. There are NOT between 50K and multiple millions of assaults on women's propriety and other transgresses taking place in a single year in America. Between 50K and 80K? Between 50K and 100K even. Just stop. Please? Someone said, and rightly so, the 2nd Amendment means they don't have to 'splain nuthin' to no one. They gets to carry their guns an' that's that! Case is closed. Why then are you putting the welfare of your immortal soul at risk of damnation, by the constant composition and defense of lies?
(CNSNews.com) – “Self-defense can be an important crime
deterrent,”says a new report by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The
$10 million study was commissioned by President Barack Obama as part of 23
executive orders he signed in January.
The Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council released the
results of their research through the CDC last month. Researchers compiled data
from previous studies in order to guide future research on gun violence, noting
that “almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million per year.”
And that's from the CDC! If that news source isn't good enough for you, go read the actual report. When people like yourself choose to ignore legitimate facts or pretend that they are "fabrications" just so that they can avoid having to acknowledge them, well, my blood boils. Cease and desist.
And that's from the CDC! If that news source isn't good enough for you, go read the actual report. When people like yourself choose to ignore legitimate facts or pretend that they are "fabrications" just so that they can avoid having to acknowledge them, well, my blood boils. Cease and desist.
Those conclusions are mostly based on research by sociology professor Gary Kleck, especially his 1993 survey study of self-defense. First, there are several problems with Kleck's study, and other studies have estimated the number of "successful" uses of self-defense with a gun at ~ 108,000 a year.
And a later study on firearm defensive use reportedly found that statistically speaking:
for “every time a gun kept in the home was involved in self-defense or legally justifiable shooting, there were 4 unintentional shootings, 7 criminal assaults or homicides, and 11 attempted or completed suicides.”
Evidently not....I see a bunch of complaining....but now you don't want to change anything?
Let me try it one more time.
(a) I haven't said anything about changing the law.
(b) In my opinion the problem lies with the careless and irresponsible use and storage of firearms. We could do a LOT better with that. (As I have pointed out in many previous posts). There are way too many knuckleheads out there messing with guns, often in places where they expose the rest of us to death or grievous injury.
(a) I haven't said anything about changing the law.
(b) In my opinion the problem lies with the careless and irresponsible use and storage of firearms. We could do a LOT better with that. (As I have pointed out in many previous posts). There are way too many knuckleheads out there messing with guns, often in places where they expose the rest of us to death or grievous injury.
And you propose doing this how, stop being exposed to knuckle heads with guns?
And you propose doing this how, stop being exposed to knuckle heads with guns?
Er, I can see you haven't been reading my posts at all, since I've specifically commented on this in detail several times.
Instead of me typing it out yet again, why don't you just read back?
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