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Spend more time in the emergency room and you’ll see even more victims of gun violence that wasn’t prevented by a good guy with a gun. |
The same NRA supports black people and legal carry. They recognized the Black Panthers as the radical organization that they are. |
Confirmation bias is a thing. But the problem is that for every one instance of criminals taken out by concealed carriers, there's thousands of other instances where the gun violence wouldn't have even happened in the first place if we actually had more sensible gun laws. |
Stat is incorrect. 5% is actually around 55%. All one has to do is aggregate the actual reported news for a year. https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/08/10/the_good_guys_with_guns_the_fbi_stats_omit_846869.html#! |
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Agree that threatening to use guns to ensure rights is always gross and people on the left should not be copying the right wing gun nuts. Disgusting all around. |
How many of those are drug-related? |
What you don’t say: Most of those are drug/gang related |
You thnk cops recognize black peoples right to have guns? |
So they aren’t human? |
Do you consider yourself “pro-life”? |
How many of these are children? |
Or just examine the statistics: There are approximately two million defensive gun uses (DGU's) per year by law abiding citizens. That was one of the findings in a national survey conducted by Gary Kleck, a Florida State University criminologist in 1993. Prior to Dr. Kleck's survey, thirteen other surveys indicated a range of between 800,000 to 2.5 million DGU's annually. However these surveys each had their flaws which prompted Dr. Kleck to conduct his own study specifically tailored to estimate the number of DGU's annually. Subsequent to Kleck's study, the Department of Justice sponsored a survey in 1994 titled, Guns in America: National Survey on Private Ownership and Use of Firearms (text, PDF). Using a smaller sample size than Kleck's, this survey estimated 1.5 million DGU's annually. There is one study, the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), which in 1993, estimated 108,000 DGU's annually. Taking into account any study of DGUs, there are massive numbers of them in the USA every year. To dismiss DGUs as rarely happening is simply ignorant and out of touch with reality. |
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Official Depart of Justice research:
There are an estimated 1.5 million defensive gun uses in America every year: https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles/165476.pdf |
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