PrinceofWands
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- May 16, 2000
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I'm actually curious if this is true or not. I don't think, from what I've read, that any ATOTer has actually ever fired a gun for home defense purposes. You don't read nearly as many stories about such cases as you do about these kind of shootings.
It could all be what the "evil commie-lovin librul' freedom-hatin'" media chooses to report, sure, but my exposure certainly lends me to think that accidents in home (or death by cop) are more common than legit home defense needs.
By requiring the firing of the weapon you have imposed a biased threshold. A weapon can defend you without having to be fired, as shown in numerous studies. I have actually fired my gun at my girlfriend's home, though it was against an animal attack, not an intruder. Others on here have also commented about weapon use. I believe someone fired through their back door once, though I could be confusing it with a story on another forum.
Regardless, it is known that there are at least a hundred thousand defensive gun uses annually (and potentially 25 times that number, but we can discount that for now). Even the staunchest anti-gunner agrees with this. Since there are only a few thousand firearm accidents per year (given the extremely small number of fatalities and general firearm mortality rates), your opinion is already disproved, even using the worst possible set of statistics available.
