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Is the NRA wrong? New study shows guns rarely used for self-defense
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Personal safety is one of the most-cited reasons to buy a gun. But a new study challenges the assumption that firearms are often used for self defense.
The Violence Policy Center found that a very small proportion of firearm homicides can be attributed to so-called justifiable situations. Just one gun death per every 32 criminal gun killings happened in self-defense scenarios in 2012, the most recent year for which data is available. And, while gun advocates argue that they want a firearm handy in their house in case of an intruder, just 0.1 percent of the justified attacks involved property crimes. |
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MarkHamTownsend
(4/22/2016)
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Violence Policy Center??!! !! ??
I wouldn't believe that festering bag of jackwagons if they told me july follows june. |
| Comment by:
Longenecker
(4/22/2016)
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Who said anything about homicides? |
| Comment by:
jac
(4/22/2016)
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I trust John Lott a lot more than the Violence Policy Center. They are nothing more than a left wing liberal mouthpiece with an agenda to remove guns from society.
By their logic using a gun for self defense doesn't count unless one kills someone. That amounts to very stupid reasoning in my opinion. |
| Comment by:
dasing
(4/22/2016)
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| They must have done the study on Mars, nothing like that on Earth. |
| Comment by:
laker1
(4/22/2016)
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| That is because most self defense gun uses result in no shots fired. Just the presentation of the firearm settles the issue. VPC blowing smoke again. |
| Comment by:
Ron_
(4/24/2016)
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| "But if it just saves one life." |
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