RE: Did guns or vaccines save more lives in 2021?
January 27, 2023 at 11:12 am
(This post was last modified: January 27, 2023 at 11:18 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 27, 2023 at 11:02 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: I know it has been pointed out, but maybe bears repeating. Kleck's study counted reports where the responder claimed to be threatened with bodily harm and deterred it by brandishing, or in some cases, firing a gun. There's no way to know in how many of those cases, the responder would have actually been killed had they not had a firearm for deterrance.
Nor is there any way of knowing how many of those cases were one in which the perceived threat also came from a man with a gun...which would throw off the math....and, if some committed nut wants the number to be small so that they don't look like the nut they are...that suggests that the -other- person's life was endangered by our gun wielding "victims".
The entire self defense angle is marketing. Handgun manufacturers, in particular, figured out a way to get people to buy more of their products. Products which have an average time to crime between 3 and 7 years, depending on the state and year.
The real question in all of this, and every one of Flat's threads...honestly, is how a croation coder finds himself wrapped up in every lunatic claim made for american nut consumption. Fuckin a, just move to arkansas and be done with it?
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