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Shooting holes in gun proponents' arguments
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"Having reached our saturation point with the arguments supporting handguns for self-defense ... we felt it was essential to restate what should be obvious -- handguns are designed and sold solely for the purpose of killing."
"Given that fact, all of those who seem to believe that some mythical Old West environment, with everyone carrying a handgun, will deter shootings such as the recent tragedy at Virginia Tech need to exercise some independent thought ... If simply being armed was sufficient, we would have no police officers shot in the line of duty."
"Another argument, the deterrence factor, is equally specious -- for every crime that is supposedly deterred ... how many innocent ... are killed ..." ... -------
Submitter's Note: Based on an conservative estimate of 754,300 DGUs per year, and 7,543 handgun homicides in 2005 there is one 'innocent' (70% of whom are felons) killed for every one hundered defensive gun uses. |
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