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Most gun use, in the form of self-defense, call it ~2.5 million times a year (that figure is now getting very long in the tooth), doesn't even involve shooting
by hga 11y ago
Most gun use, in the form of self-defense, call it ~2.5 million times a year (that figure is now getting very long in the tooth), doesn't even involve shooting the gun, most shots fired don't hit, and most hits don't result in death.
- deelowe 11y agoI was specifically not talking about self defense b/c that's an extremely small percentage of "gun use." If you don't understand your opponent, how can you ever hope to reason with him?
- hga 11y agoTrue, true, we don't produce and buy > 12 billion rounds in the US per year to shoot each other with, sorry if I wasn't clear in constraining my remarks to only self-defense uses, which I consider to be the essential uses of guns, if you include the ability to resist/prevent the establishment of a tyrannical government. The most notable example of that in my lifetime was the reevaluations of some liberals on the wisdom of gun control in hit's heyday after the Saturday Night Massacre (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacre) where Nixon dismissed the Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox, and his Attorney General and Deputy AG resigned rather than carry out the order. We mostly Nixon supporting "gun nuts" were among other things part of the insurance that mess wouldn't go too far.