Rappers and bullets go hand in hand

[BackAgain]

Sometimes bullets end up in the rappers’ noggins.

They do! It’s a fact.

 

[Man of Ethics]

Your tunnel vision isn't letting you see the big picture. Sure, 1.4 million gun deaths in 43 years. But the CDC says that most every major study on defensive gun use has found that Americans use their firearms defensively between 500,000 and 3 million times every year. Most instances where a firearm is used for defense are never even reported to law enforcement or picked up by local or national media outlets.

Given that justifiable homicide happens 200 -- 300 times per year in USA, I find this research non-credible.

 

[marvin martian]

besides Republicans don't care another crime in the Hood, they just want to contain it there.

"The hood" is just another way of saying places run by people like you. You LOVE it.

 

[Man of Ethics]

The real racism is blacks slaughtering each other every day, and you continuing to vote for the people who let it happen.

White people have almost twice greater suicide rate.

Both African American and white people suffer from guns.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

"The hood" is just another way of saying places run by people like you. You LOVE it.

I love black folks, you're right. I don't love what you have done to the communities.

 

[JGalt]

Given that justifiable homicide happens 200 -- 300 times per year in USA, I find this research non-credible.

You find it non-credible because you are biased, uninformed, and frankly, ignorant and superstitious on the subject of firearms.

• The National Crime Victimization Survey is administered twice a year by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and provides the most conservative estimate of SDGU at about 100,000 cases per year. Of note, the survey requires individuals to self-report to the federal government that they used a firearm in self-defense while providing their name and contact information. Most will be hesitant to do so for obvious reasons, so this estimate should be taken as the absolute minimum.
• A 1994 survey conducted by Bill Clinton’s Center for Disease Control (CDC) found that Americans use guns to frighten away intruders who are breaking into their homes about 500,000 times per year.
• Obama’s CDC conducted a gun control study in 2013, finding that “Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million…”
• Criminologists Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz published a study back in 1995 in which they found that gun use accounted more for defensive gun use than it did for criminal activity.” A literature review of thirteen studies in their paper provides a range of between 800,000-2.5 million SDGUs. A follow-on study in 1997 argues that that SDGU accounted for more than 80% of all gun use in America.
• CDC survey data from the 1990s that was unpublished but accessed and analyzed in 2018 by Kleck implies roughly 1 million SDGUs per year.
• According to the National Survey of Private Firearms Ownership, there are 1.5 million self-defensive gun uses every year.
• According to a paper by David Kopel, Paul Gallant, and Joanne Eisen, “[F]irearms are used over half a million times a year against home invasion burglars; usually the burglar flees as soon as he finds out that the victim is armed, and no shot is ever fired,” and “Annually, three to six times as many victims successfully defend themselves with handguns as criminals misuse handguns (thus handguns do up to six times more good than harm).”

The Stats on Self-Defensive Gun Use Liberals Don't Want You To See

 

[Man of Ethics]

You find it non-credible because you are biased, uninformed, and frankly, ignorant and superstitious on the subject of firearms.

• The National Crime Victimization Survey is administered twice a year by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and provides the most conservative estimate of SDGU at about 100,000 cases per year. Of note, the survey requires individuals to self-report to the federal government that they used a firearm in self-defense while providing their name and contact information. Most will be hesitant to do so for obvious reasons, so this estimate should be taken as the absolute minimum.
• A 1994 survey conducted by Bill Clinton’s Center for Disease Control (CDC) found that Americans use guns to frighten away intruders who are breaking into their homes about 500,000 times per year.
• Obama’s CDC conducted a gun control study in 2013, finding that “Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million…”
• Criminologists Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz published a study back in 1995 in which they found that gun use accounted more for defensive gun use than it did for criminal activity.” A literature review of thirteen studies in their paper provides a range of between 800,000-2.5 million SDGUs. A follow-on study in 1997 argues that that SDGU accounted for more than 80% of all gun use in America.
• CDC survey data from the 1990s that was unpublished but accessed and analyzed in 2018 by Kleck implies roughly 1 million SDGUs per year.
• According to the National Survey of Private Firearms Ownership, there are 1.5 million self-defensive gun uses every year.
• According to a paper by David Kopel, Paul Gallant, and Joanne Eisen, “[F]irearms are used over half a million times a year against home invasion burglars; usually the burglar flees as soon as he finds out that the victim is armed, and no shot is ever fired,” and “Annually, three to six times as many victims successfully defend themselves with handguns as criminals misuse handguns (thus handguns do up to six times more good than harm).”

The Stats on Self-Defensive Gun Use Liberals Don't Want You To See

We can agree to disagree. Given that only 200 -- 300 homicides per year are justifiable, I can not believe that guns are used for self-defense hundreds of times per year.

 

[JGalt]

We can agree to disagree. Given that only 200 -- 300 homicides per year are justifiable, I can not believe that guns are used for self-defense hundreds of times per year.

Who says there has to be an actual shooting before it's counted as self-defense? The instances where the firearm is actually used are very small, compared to the number of times the mere presence of a firearm stopped an attack.