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It does make sense. If you have a gun and something happens people are more likely to be shot than if nobody has a gun. Of course if they are found in the wrong for having done so they aren't very law abiding.
That is a silly response...if nobody had a gun....considering criminals kill 11-12,000 people a year...and murder is a crime...as is carrying a gun as a convicted felon....there are 11-12,000 times a year where somebody has a gun and uses it...better the victim also has a gun to stop it...as they do 2.5 million times a year....
The statistics are clearly telling, and there is indeed a problem with gun violence in America.Here are some crime statistics:
https://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0306.pdf
2009 - 10,639,000 crimes committed. Of those 15,200 murders. So murders are .001 of all crime. The most accurate numbers I have seen for crimes defensed with a gun is about 104,000. So of that 104,000 we could say 104 were lives saved by someone with a gun. Far less than your ridiculous 2.5 million, and also less than the number of accidental killings with guns. So guns do more damage than good.
The statistics are clearly telling, and there is indeed a problem with gun violence in America.Here are some crime statistics:
https://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0306.pdf
2009 - 10,639,000 crimes committed. Of those 15,200 murders. So murders are .001 of all crime. The most accurate numbers I have seen for crimes defensed with a gun is about 104,000. So of that 104,000 we could say 104 were lives saved by someone with a gun. Far less than your ridiculous 2.5 million, and also less than the number of accidental killings with guns. So guns do more damage than good.
But your 'solution' is no solution, if your 'solution' is more gun control, or prohibiting the carrying of a gun by citizens, the constitutionality of which not withstanding.
You're focusing only on the symptoms of the problem, without addressing the actual cause – and more gun control and restrictions will do nothing to address the actual cause of the problem.
Those are interesting stats, thanks for sharing. Here is one thing that I do find disturbing however:
When compared with non-license holders, a higher proportion of license-holder convictions were for sexual offenses, weapons offenses, deadly conduct and offenses involving the intentional killing of a person.
Concealed handguns study takes a different approach to measuring risk 8211 The Pump Handle
Those seems like things you don't want an armed person to be doing.
The study authors note that while that risk is pretty small
Overall, Texans without a concealed handgun license committed many more crimes than their licensed counterparts. Study authors wrote that “CHL holders rarely ‘break bad.
I'm curious, what do you think should be addressed?
The statistics are clearly telling, and there is indeed a problem with gun violence in America.Here are some crime statistics:
https://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0306.pdf
2009 - 10,639,000 crimes committed. Of those 15,200 murders. So murders are .001 of all crime. The most accurate numbers I have seen for crimes defensed with a gun is about 104,000. So of that 104,000 we could say 104 were lives saved by someone with a gun. Far less than your ridiculous 2.5 million, and also less than the number of accidental killings with guns. So guns do more damage than good.
But your 'solution' is no solution, if your 'solution' is more gun control, or prohibiting the carrying of a gun by citizens, the constitutionality of which not withstanding.
You're focusing only on the symptoms of the problem, without addressing the actual cause – and more gun control and restrictions will do nothing to address the actual cause of the problem.
I'm curious, what do you think should be addressed?
The statistics are clearly telling, and there is indeed a problem with gun violence in America.Here are some crime statistics:
https://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0306.pdf
2009 - 10,639,000 crimes committed. Of those 15,200 murders. So murders are .001 of all crime. The most accurate numbers I have seen for crimes defensed with a gun is about 104,000. So of that 104,000 we could say 104 were lives saved by someone with a gun. Far less than your ridiculous 2.5 million, and also less than the number of accidental killings with guns. So guns do more damage than good.
But your 'solution' is no solution, if your 'solution' is more gun control, or prohibiting the carrying of a gun by citizens, the constitutionality of which not withstanding.
You're focusing only on the symptoms of the problem, without addressing the actual cause – and more gun control and restrictions will do nothing to address the actual cause of the problem.
Focus on the criminal not the tool
build more jails...especially for violent criminals and criminals who use guns to commit crimes...people complain that it is too expensive to house inmates...but it is much more expensive having them out on the streets hurting people.
Murders with guns...not just road rage incidents....11-12,000 per year....vs....guns used to save lives and stop crime at a rate of 250-370,000 each year...and that number is just one study....others put the number at 600,000 another at 700,000 and a study requested by the police chiefs out it at over 1million a year....and the most famous study put it at 2.5 million...so, site your incidents one at a time. the truth of the numbers shows that more lives are saved by guns than are taken by them....
I know, it goes against what you believe but the truth is he truth...
