(February 18, 2022 at 6:09 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(February 18, 2022 at 4:05 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: Well, the fact is that the estimates of how many lives are saved by guns each year tend to be around the order of magnitude bigger than the estimates of how many people are killed by guns each year. The estimates that guns save around 3 million people per year are probably bullshit. But so are the estimates that it is less than 50'000 per year. The estimates that guns save 300'000 people per year in the US are probably close to the truth, don't you think?
Where do these estimates come from? How are they collected? What is the methodology for determining if a gun saves a life? Why are the high and low estimates 'bullshit'?
Boru
https://www.nraila.org/gun-laws/armed-citizen/
Yes - this is the NRA. Read a few of these reports - in each case the media outlet that made the report is cited.
It is kind of hard to call it biased reporting with so many different sources.
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The simplest answer is - when a gun saves a life - it isn't considered news that needs reporting.
