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Does Owning a Gun Make You Safer? Not According to the Data
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The United States has the most heavily armed civilian population in the First World; our homes contain enough firearms for every man, woman and child.
Why do so many Americans own guns? The main reason, according to surveys, is protection. Advocates argue that guns in the home both deter crime (criminals refrain from even trying to break in because they fear being shot by an armed citizen) and thwart it (an armed citizen can stop a crime in progress, preventing injury or theft). |
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jac
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It makes me safer.
If you want to factor in suicides and ignore defensive use of guns where no shots are fired and nobody is killed, you can make a bogus case against guns, but it involves a great deal of deceit. |
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PHORTO
(9/8/2015)
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Yo, Hemenway.
Tell me that having a gun won't make you safer at the exact moment some dirtball is mugging you, robbing you at gun/knife point or invading your home.
You jerk. |
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| There are other things so clearly out of the power of Congress, that the bare recital of them is sufficient, I mean the "...rights of bearing arms for defence, or for killing game..." These things seem to have been inserted among their objections, merely to induce the ignorant to believe that Congress would have a power over such objects and to infer from their being refused a place in the Constitution, their intention to exercise that power to the oppression of the people. —ALEXANDER WHITE (1787) |
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