Gun advocates believe that private citizen gun ownership is a deterent to criminal gun crime. Its just not true. FBI and CDC both have numbers going back over 10 years that show clearly a gun owned in the home will 75% of the time will be the cause of injury or death to a loved one or friend before its used against a criminal.
Busted. You are so full of shit its laughable.
Myth: Private ownership of guns is not effective in preventing crime
Fact: Every year, people in the United States use guns to defend themselves against criminals an estimated 2,500,000 times – more than 6,500 people a day, or once every 13
seconds.151 Of these instances, 15.6% of the people using firearms defensively stated that they "almost certainly" saved their lives by doing so.
Fact: In 83.5% (2,087,500) of these successful gun defenses, the attacker either
threatened or used force first, proving that guns are very well suited for self-defense.
Fact: The rate of defensive gun use (SGU) is six times that of criminal gun use.152
Fact: For every accidental death, suicide, or homicide with a firearm, 10 lives are saved
through defensive use.
Myth: You are more likely to be injured or killed using a gun for self-defense
Fact: You are far more likely to survive a violent assault if you defend yourself with a
gun. In episodes where a robbery victim was injured, the injury/defense rates were:
Resisting with a gun 6%
Did nothing at all 25%
Resisted with a knife 40%
Non-violent resistance 45%
Myth: Accidental gun fatalities are a serious problem
Fact: Firearm misuse causes only a small number of accidental deaths in the U.S.270 For
example, compared to accidental death from firearms, you are:
• Four times more likely to burn to death or drown
• 17 times more likely to be poisoned
• 19 times more likely to fall
• And 53 times more likely to die in an automobile accident
AND HERE IS WHERE YOUR "FACTS" REALLY GET DEBUNKED
Myth: Handguns are 43 times more likely to kill a family member than a criminal
Fact: Of the 43 deaths reported in this flawed study, 37 (86%) were suicides. Other deaths involved criminal activity between the family members (drug deals gone bad).148
Fact: Of the remaining deaths, the deceased family members include felons, drug dealers, violent spouses committing assault, and other criminals.149
I know that you have been proven to be full of shit, but just in case you are about to make the argument that less guns = less suicide, chew on this:
Myth: Japan has strict gun control and a less violent society
Fact: In Japan, the murder rate is almost 1 per 100,000. In the U.S., there are about 3.2 murders per 100,000 people each year by weapons other than firearms.66 This means that even if firearms in the U.S. could be eliminated, we would still have three times the murder rate of the Japanese. Japan’s murder rate may be low, but its suicide rate is over 20 per 100,000 people. Japanese are being murdered and committing suicide at a rate of about 21 per 100,000. In the U.S., our combined murder and suicide rate is about 21 also.
I know I'm getting ahead of myself, but I'd figure I'd just go ahead and debunk your future argument.
http://www.gunfacts.info/pdfs/gun-facts/5.1/gun-facts-5.1-screen.pdf
So basically, you are full of shit
Try again
*edit*
You guys notice how not one of these anti-gun posters ever posts facts? All personal opinion, gut feelings, and hunches that are unsubstantiated by evidence. Its so funny
Facebook
Twitter