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Originally Posted by Tchocky
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Originally Posted by waste gate
Perhaps what we should be looking at is how many lives are saved because of private ownership of fire arms. * Guns are used 2.5 million times a year in self-defense. Law-abiding citizens use guns to defend themselves against criminals as many as 2.5 million times every year—or about 6,850 times a day. This means that each year, firearms are used more than 80 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives. |
This carries the blatant assumption that the citizens life was in danger, and the gun saved them. Most criminals would not be prepared to kill. Warding off a mugger with a handgun is NOT saving your life.
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* Anti-gun journal pronounces the failure of the Brady law. One of the nation’s leading anti-gun medical publications, the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that the Brady registration law has failed to reduce murder rates. In August 2000, JAMA reported that states implementing waiting periods and background checks did "not [experience] reductions in homicide rates or overall suicide rates."
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Of course. Registering guns and making people wait for them doesnt stop guns getting into their hands.
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* Twice as many children are killed playing football in school than are murdered by guns. That’s right. Despite what media coverage might seem to indicate, there are more deaths related to high school football than guns. In a recent three year period, twice as many football players died from hits to the head, heat stroke, etc. (45), as compared with students who were murdered by firearms (22) during that same time period.
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I really dont mean to be pithy here, but how the hell is this relevant?
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* Zogby pollsters found that by a more than 3 to 1 margin, Americans support punishing "criminals who use a gun in the commission of a crime" over legislation to "ban handguns."
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That's a ridiculous poll. It creates a false choice. Cant America have both?
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* A study claiming "guns are three times more likely to kill you than help you" is a total fraud. Even using the low figures from the Clinton Justice Department, firearms are used almost 50 times more often to save life than to take life.15 More importantly, however, the figure claiming one is three times more likely to be killed by one’s own gun is a total lie:
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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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The major problem I have with your argument is that you think all questioning is designed to favor a particular argument. You haven't met a statistict you didn't like, unless it supported your position.
Secondly, by your own logic, how is a reasonable indivilual to know if the mugger isn't out to do you serious or deadly bodily harm?
better to meet the mugger with undeniably greater force. The situation ends and the law abiding gun owner reports the occurance to the proper authoriy.