“Do concealed-weapon laws result in less crime?” Washington Post Fact-Checker Awards “Three Pinocchios”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/do-concealed-weapon-laws-result-in-less-crime/2012/12/16/e80a5d7e-47c9-11e2-ad54-580638ede391_blog.html
The following website,
"Guns Save Lives," "was started to attempt to quantify the number of people who
use a firearm to defend themselves and others." http://gunssavelives.net/about-this-site/
Last night, I reviewed all
instances of "firearm self-defense" listed for the last three months
and discovered that, nationally, Americans use firearms to defend themselves
against crime twice a day. (Keep track of how often you see press reports
concerning "firearm self-defense." They are vanishingly rare.)
Please explore "Guns
Save Lives" to determine for yourself how many of these "cases" are bona fide, and how many resulted in "the
death of a petty thief with no violent intent," or the death of an
"assailant" involved in ongoing discord with the shooter, or
"stand-your-ground paranoia," or even convenient
"cover-ups" for murder/manslaughter.
Almost always, civilians
who keep handguns in a location where they can be used for self-defense are
bizarre people.
Always these gunslingers increase the risk that violence - often suicide - will be perpetrated in their homes. (See "Guns Make Homes More Dangerous, Not Less" http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/12/guns-make-homes-more-dangerous-not-less.html)
Always these gunslingers increase the risk that violence - often suicide - will be perpetrated in their homes. (See "Guns Make Homes More Dangerous, Not Less" http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/12/guns-make-homes-more-dangerous-not-less.html)
It is also a fact that 55 Americans use firearms to commit suicide every day and another 27 are killed with
handguns.
The myth that "guns
save lives" (by "forfending threatening criminals") is almost
entirely urban legend.
Yet the number of
successful instances of "self-defense with firearm" is routinely
touted as "up to 2,500,000 annually."
Yep! And on those days when I win The Powerball, my annual
income is "up to fifty million."
Consider the following Harvard study
that concludes: "Virtually No Armed Criminals Report Being Wounded By A
Law-Abiding Citizen" - http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/12/harvard-virtually-none-report-being.html.
"Gun Cartoons and Gun Violence Bibliography"
"Gun Cartoons and Gun Violence Bibliography"
Some
of the good Christians who make America possible.
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