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Firearms by law, must be locked up. Criminals that break into houses aren't usually armed, unless it's a drug house.
I think criminals don't usually have a gun, because they aren't expecting any one to be armed and ready to shoot.
Your wrong.
Firearms do not have to be locked up. The heller decision actually said it is unconstitutional to require someone to keep their guns locked up or disassembled in their home.
Firearms do not have to be locked up. The heller decision actually said it is unconstitutional to require someone to keep their guns locked up or disassembled in their home.
I'm talking about New Zealand. I asked a question earlier in the thread - would everyone being armed in NZ, mean that NZ's murder rate would go down?
Firearms by law, must be locked up. Criminals that break into houses aren't usually armed, unless it's a drug house.
I think criminals don't usually have a gun, because they aren't expecting any one to be armed and ready to shoot.
Maybe the case there, but where I'm at most of the criminals breaking in for home invasions are armed. There is however a number of them that use air guns, airsoft guns, replicas and toys in their pursuits; mostly because those are cheap and the real ones can be sold for a lot of money. The Mexican drug cartels buy guns off the druggy criminals.
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Take a moment to lookup sights such as gunssavelives.net or keepandbears.com
Read some of the storys about the average person using a gun to stop a crime. "It takes A good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun."
I liked the story of a man using his revolver to shoot back at a criminal on a shooting spree; saving a cops life. oh yeah the cop was pinned down while holding his ar-15.
Some years ago I was able to stop a killing. A man stabbing of a woman, the guy had a knife, I had a gun. you know the old saying dont we.
Maybe the case there, but where I'm at most of the criminals breaking in for home invasions are armed. There is however a number of them that use air guns, airsoft guns, replicas and toys in their pursuits; mostly because those are cheap and the real ones can be sold for a lot of money. The Mexican drug cartels buy guns off the druggy criminals.
Home invasions are a very uncommon occurrence unless you're in the drug trade.
The Violence Prevention Center reported that in that in 2010 “there were only 230 justifiable homicides involving a private citizen using a firearm” reported to the F.B.I.’s Uniform Crime Reports.
Compare that with the number of criminal gun homicides in the same year: 8,275. (That’s not counting gun suicides or unintentional shootings.)
Or compare it with the number of Americans killed by guns since Newtown: 3,531."
The NRA says that guns are used a million times a year for self-defense, but they do not say how they obtain that number other than conjecture. And I would suspect that many of those incidents of "self-defense" are the variety where a homeowner hears a weird noise in the middle of the night, creeps around the house with their rifle, and thinks, "good, I scared the intruders away."
The Violence Prevention Center reported that in that in 2010 “there were only 230 justifiable homicides involving a private citizen using a firearm” reported to the F.B.I.’s Uniform Crime Reports.
Compare that with the number of criminal gun homicides in the same year: 8,275. (That’s not counting gun suicides or unintentional shootings.)
Or compare it with the number of Americans killed by guns since Newtown: 3,531."
The NRA says that guns are used a million times a year for self-defense, but they do not say how they obtain that number other than conjecture. And I would suspect that many of those incidents of "self-defense" are the variety where a homeowner hears a weird noise in the middle of the night, creeps around the house with their rifle, and thinks, "good, I scared the intruders away."
Actually Brady Co. said that not NRA. NRA's number is over 2 million.
Even we take the lowest number from the hardcore antigun people, it still saves a magnitude amount of people than it murders.
Not sure what your point is.
No, I was referring to the NRA, not the Brady campaign. I know they say 2 million, but that is clearly ludicrous, so I said "over a million."
There is no recent high-quality data on how often guns are legitimately used for self-defense. And researchers have noted that even when surveys are done, on further analysis it shows that most of the occasions reported as self-defense are escalating arguments in which someone finally pulls a gun.
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