RE: Mass shooting in the middle school Vladislav Ribnikar in Belgrade
May 11, 2023 at 5:43 am
(This post was last modified: May 11, 2023 at 5:54 am by FlatAssembler.)
(May 10, 2023 at 10:57 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote:(May 10, 2023 at 10:50 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: Either way, it's by orders of magnitude more scientific than things you keep saying here.
Excellent, and so..we can scientifically say that there are @ 300k unreported crimes involving a firearm going on every year. Brandishing and threatening are, ofc, illegal in the us.
No, it's almost an order of a magnitude more. There are, according to the Gary Kleck's study (and quite a few other studies arrive at a similar result), around 2.5 million defensive gun uses per year. In about 20% of them, the gun is actually fired. The 300k is just the Gary Kleck's estimate of the number of people who have been actually saved by guns, who would die if they hadn't had a gun. And, to the best of my knowledge, no other study tried to estimate how many lives are saved by guns each year. So, the Gary Kleck's study is the best data we have on this, and we have to accept it.
