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After the Virginia Beach shooting, the New York Times reran an essay on gun control by Nicholas Kristof, which contains this paragraph:
It is true that guns are occasionally used to stop violence. But contrary to what the National Rifle Association suggests, this is rare. One study by the Violence Policy Center found that in 2012 there were 259 justifiable homicides by a private citizen using a firearm.
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MarkHamTownsend
(6/4/2019)
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Again, the damnable canard that only justifiable shootings constitute self defense . There are between 500,000 and 1,000,000 incidents each year where citizens defend themselves with guns, no shots fired. But that would upset the gungrabber's agenda too much.
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