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When someone owns a gun the gun is more likely to kill someone the gun owner knows either by accident, by the gun owner shooting an acquaintance in a argument, or by another family member using the gun to commit a homicide or commit suicide. And women who live in a home with a gun are 2.7 times more likely to be murdered than women living in a home with no gun. Dangerous Gun Myths - The New York Times
"According to FBI data, nearly eight times more people were shot and killed in arguments than by civilians trying to stop a crime."
"The odds of an assault victim being shot were 4.5 times greater if he carried a gun. His odds of being killed were 4.2 times greater."
"For every time a gun is used in self-defense in the home, there are 7 assaults or murders, 11 suicide attempts, and 4 accidents involving guns in or around a home."
"More than 5 times more women were shot by husbands, boyfriends, and ex-partners than murdered by male strangers."
That says "shot and killed". In most defensive uses of a gun, no one is shot at all. The gun is enough to stop the attempted assault, robbery , etc.
And yet thousands and thousands of US citizens are still shot to death every year.........meanwhile in the UK about 50-60 people are shot to death every year, with stats like this against you trying to argue that guns reduce death by firearms is like trying to argue that black is white. You will just have to get back to me when the rate in the US is equivalent to here (considering the population difference it will need to be about 300 and not 20'000)! I don't expect I will be hearing from you anytime soon!
And yet thousands and thousands of US citizens are still shot to death every year.........meanwhile in the UK about 50-60 people are shot to death every year, with stats like this against you trying to argue that guns reduce death by firearms is like trying to argue that black is white. You will just have to get back to me when the rate in the US is equivalent to here (considering the population difference it will need to be about 300 and not 20'000)! I don't expect I will be hearing from you anytime soon!
You are comparing the UK with about 65,000,000 people to the U.S. with 330,000,000 and are surprised there are more homicides in the U.S.? Wow. Firearms don't commit "gun deaths", people do. Does the UK have the same number of large cities, with gang violence?
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