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Studies by Kleck and the Department of Justice conclude that guns are frequently used to protect crime victims. But do they serve as a deterrent to crime? Findings are mixed.
A study by professors James D. Wright and Peter Rossi surveyed nearly 2,000 incarcerated felons and concluded that criminals are more worried about running into armed victims than law enforcement.
According to the Wright-Rossi survey, 34% of the felons responding from state prisons said that they had been “scared off, shot at, wounded or captured” by a victim armed with a firearm. The same percentage said they worried about being fired upon by armed victims, while 57% said they were more concerned with encountering an armed victim than encountering law enforcement officers.
Why are they worried? There are only a little over 200 justifiable homicides with a gun each year. According to 2aguy most armed defenders let the criminal go...
Why are you worried about people defending themselves against criminals? Even if it was 30,000 people a year, that is still 30,000 who avoided being victims of criminals because of their guns. Right?
With 19,000 accidental shootings and 500 accidental shooting deaths it is probably better for some to just give up their wallet. Not to mention how many people are in jail because they thought it was a lawful defense.
1,500,000 times Americans use guns for self defense according to Bill Clinton.......,,,,far more than non fatal accidents, fatal accidents and actual gun murder.....combined......twit.
Why fatal? There is obviously not 1.5 million lives being saved. Gun owners are a minority, a small minority when you look at how many carry. We only have like 14,000 murders each year in the country. That means at most the number of lives saved is some small percent of 14,000.
Here are some parents greatly regretting gun ownership now:
Police: Child killed in accidental shooting
These stories are much easier to find than any of lives being saved.
Yeah...because they bleed......and journalists are,anti gun in their bias........again...1,500,000 defensive gun uses and when you tell the guy you will shoot if they don't leave...and then they leave...doesn't make the local news twit......and then most of these stories can't break local news into national news even if a thug is shot.......you guys are so desperate to hide the truth, the facts and the reality...
Too bad for you that women and minorities don't buy your lies...they are the growing sectors in gun ownership........and that is not good news for you anti gun nuts...
Yet you post many that do make the news... The news needs exciting stories like gun defenses, they aren't going to turn them away. You are living in fantasy land again.
According to the OP that is not good news for women or children.
Why are they worried? There are only a little over 200 justifiable homicides with a gun each year. According to 2aguy most armed defenders let the criminal go...
Why are you worried about people defending themselves against criminals? Even if it was 30,000 people a year, that is still 30,000 who avoided being victims of criminals because of their guns. Right?
With 19,000 accidental shootings and 500 accidental shooting deaths it is probably better for some to just give up their wallet. Not to mention how many people are in jail because they thought it was a lawful defense.
1,500,000 times Americans use guns for self defense according to Bill Clinton.......,,,,far more than non fatal accidents, fatal accidents and actual gun murder.....combined......twit.
Why fatal? There is obviously not 1.5 million lives being saved. Gun owners are a minority, a small minority when you look at how many carry. We only have like 14,000 murders each year in the country. That means at most the number of lives saved is some small percent of 14,000.
And not only are gun owners a minority, but lets look at the relationship of the victim to the murderer:
In 2009, 24.2 percent of victims were slain by family members; 53.8 percent were killed by someone they knew (acquaintance, neighbor, friend, boyfriend, etc.). The relationship of murder victims and offenders was unknown in 43.9 percent of murder and nonnegligent manslaughter incidents in 2009. (Based on Expanded Homicide Data Table 10.)
- Of the female murder victims for whom their relationships to the offenders were known, 34.6 percent were murdered by their husbands or boyfriends. (Based on Expanded Homicide Data Tables 2 and 10.)
Over 50% of the time the victim is an acquaintance, over 24% a family member. The guy who decides to kill his gun toting wife is going to do it when she can't defend herself with a gun, like while in the shower or sleeping. The same could be said for many in the acquaintance group. So at most it really is a very small percent of 14,000.
Your posts in this thread.
The fact that you don't even acknowledge that guns save lives, all you do is post about, and get giddy when, someone is accidentally shot with a gun.
Examples of accidents are far easier to find than any with lives saved. That should tell you something.
Here are some parents greatly regretting gun ownership now:
Police: Child killed in accidental shooting
These stories are much easier to find than any of lives being saved.
Yeah...because they bleed......and journalists are,anti gun in their bias........again...1,500,000 defensive gun uses and when you tell the guy you will shoot if they don't leave...and then they leave...doesn't make the local news twit......and then most of these stories can't break local news into national news even if a thug is shot.......you guys are so desperate to hide the truth, the facts and the reality...
Too bad for you that women and minorities don't buy your lies...they are the growing sectors in gun ownership........and that is not good news for you anti gun nuts...
Yet you post many that do make the news... The news needs exciting stories like gun defenses, they aren't going to turn them away. You are living in fantasy land again.
According to the OP that is not good news for women or children.
Why are they worried? There are only a little over 200 justifiable homicides with a gun each year. According to 2aguy most armed defenders let the criminal go...
Why are you worried about people defending themselves against criminals? Even if it was 30,000 people a year, that is still 30,000 who avoided being victims of criminals because of their guns. Right?
With 19,000 accidental shootings and 500 accidental shooting deaths it is probably better for some to just give up their wallet. Not to mention how many people are in jail because they thought it was a lawful defense.
1,500,000 times Americans use guns for self defense according to Bill Clinton.......,,,,far more than non fatal accidents, fatal accidents and actual gun murder.....combined......twit.
Why fatal? There is obviously not 1.5 million lives being saved. Gun owners are a minority, a small minority when you look at how many carry. We only have like 14,000 murders each year in the country. That means at most the number of lives saved is some small percent of 14,000.
if the criminal runs away before they commit the crime...the crime doesn't happen twit.......so it isn't counted...so the thug that planned on kidnapping, torturing, raping and murdering a Oman....who is stopped because the woman points a gun........that is a rape, kidnapping, torture, and murder that are never counted....because they didn't happen because of the gun.....moron.
Why are you worried about people defending themselves against criminals? Even if it was 30,000 people a year, that is still 30,000 who avoided being victims of criminals because of their guns. Right?
With 19,000 accidental shootings and 500 accidental shooting deaths it is probably better for some to just give up their wallet. Not to mention how many people are in jail because they thought it was a lawful defense.
1,500,000 times Americans use guns for self defense according to Bill Clinton.......,,,,far more than non fatal accidents, fatal accidents and actual gun murder.....combined......twit.
Why fatal? There is obviously not 1.5 million lives being saved. Gun owners are a minority, a small minority when you look at how many carry. We only have like 14,000 murders each year in the country. That means at most the number of lives saved is some small percent of 14,000.
And not only are gun owners a minority, but lets look at the relationship of the victim to the murderer:
In 2009, 24.2 percent of victims were slain by family members; 53.8 percent were killed by someone they knew (acquaintance, neighbor, friend, boyfriend, etc.). The relationship of murder victims and offenders was unknown in 43.9 percent of murder and nonnegligent manslaughter incidents in 2009. (Based on Expanded Homicide Data Table 10.)
- Of the female murder victims for whom their relationships to the offenders were known, 34.6 percent were murdered by their husbands or boyfriends. (Based on Expanded Homicide Data Tables 2 and 10.)
Over 50% of the time the victim is an acquaintance, over 24% a family member. The guy who decides to kill his gun toting wife is going to do it when she can't defend herself with a gun, like while in the shower or sleeping. The same could be said for many in the acquaintance group. So at most it really is a very small percent of 14,000.
Wrong....the people who know each other are most of the time criminals......who know each other from their lifestyle.....I have opted these facts over and over and then you lie....moron.
The husbands and boyfriends...have long records of violent behavior and criminal behavior, along with drug or alcohol abuse......what a twit...
You know th truth...and you lie.
So your point is most law abiding people have almost no chance of being a victim of murder? Yes that is true.
So your point is most law abiding people have almost no chance of being a victim of murder? Yes that is true.
That's the keyword.
I have almost no chance of dying in a car crash yet the gov't mandates I wear a seatbelt.
So your point is most law abiding people have almost no chance of being a victim of murder? Yes that is true.
That's the keyword.
I have almost no chance of dying in a car crash yet the gov't mandates I wear a seatbelt.
So if you want to have a gun because you are scared and paranoid because there is a tiny chance someone will try to kill you please do. But be aware there is also a small chance that gun will be involved in an accidental shooting that could kill or maim one of your family members. If you look at who is killed by guns they are primarily suicide machines so you have to worry about that also.
A seat belt won't accidently kill you or a family member.
There you go. Let us "gun nuts" take care of ourselves.
Oh yea, when the robber breaks into your house, don't expect me to help you. You can just call 911, remember when seconds count the police are only minutes away.
So your point is most law abiding people have almost no chance of being a victim of murder? Yes that is true.
That's the keyword.
I have almost no chance of dying in a car crash yet the gov't mandates I wear a seatbelt.
So if you want to have a gun because you are scared and paranoid because there is a tiny chance someone will try to kill you please do. But be aware there is also a small chance that gun will be involved in an accidental shooting that could kill or maim one of your family members. If you look at who is killed by guns they are primarily suicide machines so you have to worry about that also.
A seat belt won't accidently kill you or a family member.
This is why I don't get too bent out of shape about gun nuts. They mostly shoot their own family and friends, either by accident, or intentionally in a rage. While I can get pretty worked up over it when a child is involved, mostly I consider it nature's way of thinning the heard.
There you go. Let us "gun nuts" take care of ourselves.
Oh yea, when the robber breaks into your house, don't expect me to help you. You can just call 911, remember when seconds count the police are only minutes away.
I've heard of hunters shooting deer hunters OUT OF TREES saying that they thought they were a deer. Stupid people are everywhere but that doesn't change the fact that guns save lives. Period. End of thread.
The fact is gun control does not work, more laws - less freedoms, more firearms less crime...
Na, not really.The fact is gun control does not work, more laws - less freedoms, more firearms less crime...
It catches criminals before they commit a crime all of the time.
Na, not really.The fact is gun control does not work, more laws - less freedoms, more firearms less crime...
It catches criminals before they commit a crime all of the time.
