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Congressman Says He'll Carry A Gun From Now On To Stay Safe, But It's The Wrong Answer
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Mark A. Taff
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The response to gun violence should not be that we need to further arm ourselves against that violence. There are, of course, examples of armed citizens preventing shootings, as a Washington Post round-up shows, but those events are exceedingly rare. According to the Violence Policy Center's most recent analysis, there were only 224 cases in 2014 of citizens justifiably using firearms to defend themselves or others. Between 2013 and 2015, intended victims of violent crimes used a firearm in self-defense in only 1.1 percent of crimes. |
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dasing
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| They are only rare in your world, not in the real world. There are huge numbers of real selfdefence events in the US every day that are never reported in the libral media, and they will never be reported! |
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PHORTO
(6/15/2017)
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| Wrong answer for WHO? Not for the congressman, obviously. |
| Comment by:
lbauer
(6/15/2017)
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According to the VPC a defensive shooting only counts if the victim shoots and kills their attacker.
Cases where the criminal is only wounded or simply held at gunpoint until the cops arrive don't count in their book. |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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