RE: BREAKING: OREGON COLLEGE SHOOTING
October 10, 2015 at 7:10 pm
(This post was last modified: October 10, 2015 at 7:11 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(October 10, 2015 at 5:02 pm)MattB Wrote:(October 3, 2015 at 1:31 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: You do realize that often the defensive use of a gun doesn't involve firing it at all, right?
At times and mostly true but in this case you are talking about someone not sane and willing to die. May have planned to die in which case a threat from a gun wouldn't have much effect on him. Pulling a gun at someone and hesitating might just get you killed.
I know this. I was mentioning it as a way of explaining incomplete statistics.
When I learnt how to shoot, I was taught to not point a gun at a person unless I intended to shoot, and to only shoot to kill. That is still valid advice.
(October 5, 2015 at 11:17 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: Of course. I was positing why statistics might possibly be incomplete.
Quote:I've found on gun issues most the time the statistics are incomplete depending on who is funding the study. Seen this on both sides of the gun control debate.
No argument with that.
