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Re: An armed society...
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Mon, 21 Jan 2002 16:42:35 GMT
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> I would suggest bringing a gun into his own home is no solution.
> Statistically, who is he most likely to shoot with the gun?
/objective mode on
Well ignoring the propaganda on both sides of the Gun Control issue, and using
indepentant statistics from Gallup Polls.
This is all applicable to the USA.
Roughly 10,000 crimes a year are committed with legally obtained guns. (It is
almost 10 times that for illegally obtained guns.) Roughly 2,000,000 crimes a
year are prevented by armed citizens. Statistically the easier it is to
legally obtain a gun in an area the lower the crime rate.
/objective mode off
Gun Control has nothing to do with Guns and everything to do with Control.
A politicain can never take away the peoples rights, so long as the people have
the ability to shoot him for trying.
-Mike Petrucelli
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| (...) How many are prevented by unarmed citizens? How many times are guns used as a threat when there is no need? Does that count as a prevented crime? (...) That is because statistically legal gun owners are white middle income americans living in (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) This is more or less identical to the old "we've discovered 2/3 of all the oil in the world" argument. What qualifies as a "crime," in your example? What qualifies as "preventing" a "crime" in your example? If my possession of a handgun (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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