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* That love pending being home to enact their castle-doctrine fantasies. It's only anecdotal, but the one thief that I knew loved handguns as they are small, h
by scarecrowbob 10y ago
* That love pending being home to enact their castle-doctrine fantasies.
It's only anecdotal, but the one thief that I knew loved handguns as they are small, have real value, and are easy to sell.
The fact that no one is going to go into a house to steal stuff if they think someone is there to protect it pairs just fine with the fact that often folks aren't home.
- 0xfeba 10y agoIt's not so anecdotal. The majority (70%) of gun homicides in the US are with (cheap) handguns[1]: Total firearm homicides: 8,454 Handgun homicides: 5,782 Rifles, Shotguns, other: ~700 Which, with other stats, goes to show IMO, that "Assault Weapon Bans" are more grandstanding than anything else. [1] - https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-homicide/expanded_homicide_data_table_8_murder_victims_by_weapon_2009-2013.xls https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-...