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I have gone from apprehensive to intrigued.
As I wrote in my column last Saturday, crime rates here had me wondering if I should get a handgun.
I don’t like the stats. Mother Jones magazine reports that a study in Philadelphia found 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.
States with higher gun ownership rates have higher gun murder rates — as much as 114 percent higher than states with lower gun ownership rates.
And I heard that something like 70 percent of people could not — just couldn’t — pull the trigger on another human being. That would be me.
That was my mindset going into a beginner’s handgun class last weekend. |
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