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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most rapes are committed by someone the victim already knows. A gun wouldn’t stop that in the vast majority of cases because usually the victim has their guard down.

Random “stranger rapes” are very rare. But when they do happen, the rapist typically has the advantage due to the element of surprise. Very difficult to fish your gun out of your purse or waistband before being physically attacked and restrained. And there’s probably a 50/50 chance the rapist will take control of your firearm and use it to control you. So that’s made a bad situation even worse.

If the USG was able to keep accurate statistics about firearms, it would shock most Americans out of complacency.[/quote]

It certainly would; there would be even more confirmation of the tens of thousands or more of annual defensive uses of firearms, typically without firing a shot. [/quote]

You want someone to count all the times that somebody pointed a gun at someone else and nobody was shot? My late neighbor used to have a gun in his house for home protection, and he was never robbed. Do you want to count that? We don't have a gun in the house, and we also haven't been robbed. Maybe you want to count that too - my late neighbor's home-protection gun even protected us! or something. When we would knock on his door after dark for neighborly things, which we tried to avoid because he answered the door with the gun after dark, we would yell IT'S YOUR NEIGHBORS! as loud as we could, and hoped he could hear us.[/quote]

First of all, a house cannot be “robbed.”

And you completely misrepresent my post. Defensive uses of firearms are just that — situations in which an attack or incipient attack was met by defensive force or the immediate threat thereof. 
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