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Again, this postulates that the criminal was ready and willing to kill, and would have definitely done so. Thazt kind of asssumption is dangerous, because we dont know what would have happened.
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Not any more dangerous than assuming a person who breaks into an occupied house will not attempt to hurt those inside. You're betting someone elses life on the harmless intentions of a criminal. Talk about dangerous assumptions. |
No, you're missing my point. Saying that 2.5m firearms used in self-defense "saved lives", like waste_gate did, is misleading, because unless every single occurrence was an attempted murder, then thats simply not the case. It's a dangerous assumption that leads to bad use of statistics.
I'm talking about statistics, which obviously happen after the fact. I'm not betting anyones life
