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Originally Posted by thebigmole
I am for the banning of guns to prevent people from hurting themselves or others for stupid reasons, and I don't understand why that's not a good enough reason.
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Because we don't live in a nanny state. A few people being retarded is not justification to take guns away from everyone. Thats the equivalent of giving the entire class detention because some kid got his head suck in a chair.
In all honesty, if we applied that mentality to everything, we should ban cars, alcohol, all over the counter and prescription drugs, food, pools, and all electrical devices, unless each is given to us and operated for us by a trained government agent.
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Originally Posted by thebigmole
And honestly how often do people actually successfully use guns to protect themselves, I'm willing to bet it's less often then people hurt themselves or others with their guns by accident.
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BASED UPON 2 MILLION DGUs PER YEAR:
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1. Only 24% (480,000) reported firing their guns. This means 76% (1.52 million ) times the gun deterred crime merely by its presence.
2. Wounds occurred in less than 8% of the cases., or less than (300,000)
3. Most DGUs occurred in the home, 37% ( 740,000) vs 27% (540,000) away.
4. Property was lost in only 11% (220,000) cases. Guns successfully prevented theft in 89% of the cases or 1.74 million times.
5. In 84% (1.68 million), cases the perp displayed a weapon or attacked before the DGU. Eleven respondents reported using gun only after being injured by the attacker.
6. Only 18% (360,000) reported criminals armed with guns, but 53% (1.06 million) reported facing multiple assailants in DGU incidents.
7. Assailants had weapons other than guns 48% of the time, ( 960,000) in DGU cases. In 18% ( 360,000) of the cases the assailants were armed with guns.
From the statistics garnered by Kleck and Gertz we can conclude guns succeed in preventing crime. Defensive gun users only used guns as a last resort, often only after they were injured by their assailants. Contrary to allegations by anti-gun activists of CC gun owners turning "vigilante" and acting like "Rambo", statistics show the opposite. They shoot less, kill fewer, and cause less incidental damage than police. Guns are extremely successful in preventing theft. They succeed almost 90% of the time, most often without being fired, or the thief injured.
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Source:
http://www.outdoors.net/site/feature...Code=121&jse=1