RE: Reporter/camera man murdered.
August 29, 2015 at 12:14 pm
(This post was last modified: August 29, 2015 at 12:15 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(August 29, 2015 at 10:57 am)Brian37 Wrote: The wild west Dirty Harry romance of "self defence" is as fictional and delusional as God belief.
the Violence Policy Center Wrote:According to the NCVS, looking at the total number of self-protective behaviors undertaken by victims of both attempted and completed violent crime for the five-year period 2007 through 2011, in only 0.8 percent of these instances had the intended victim in resistance to a criminal “threatened or attacked with a firearm.”11 As detailed in the chart on the next page, for the five-year period 2007 through 2011, the NCVS estimates that there were 29,618,300 victims of attempted or completed violent crime. During this same five-year period, only 235,700 of the self-protective behaviors involved a firearm. Of this number, it is not known what type of firearm was used or whether it was fired or not. The number may also include off-duty law enforcement officers who use their firearms in self-defense.
Link opens as a PDF in your browser: http://www.vpc.org/studies/justifiable.pdf
236,000 defensive gun uses in five years, and that is according to the Department of Justice, is not fictional or delusional. Over 40,000 times a year -- that's five times the gun-homicide rate.
It's any not peg I hang my argument on, for a number of reasons -- but the fact, people can and do use guns defensively.
