RE: Did guns or vaccines save more lives in 2021?
January 10, 2023 at 7:04 pm
(This post was last modified: January 10, 2023 at 7:05 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(January 10, 2023 at 6:55 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote:(January 10, 2023 at 5:28 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: it has nothing to do with the crime rate in the US. it has to do with whether you think it is even plausible that in 94% of all circumstances where a person would otherwise have been murdered or died of criminal homicide, not only is there a gun available to the would be victim or his defender right at the criminal moment, but the gun was effectively used to prevent the crime. think, man, don’t believe every statistic that seems to make a case you clearly favor.
And don't you find it highly implausible that almost everybody who thinks gun saved their life is somehow mistaken? I suppose that 300'000 lives per year could be an overestimate, but, in order for guns to take more lives than they save, more than 90% of people who think guns saved their lives would have to be mistaken.
A person who thinks a gun saved their life is exactly the type of person most likely to be mistaken. Self-justification.
P1: I need a gun to save my life.
P2: I’m alive.
C: My gun saved my life.
Boru
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