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"The canard of the armed civilian mass-shooting hero " A premise like this just proves you're not interested in any sort of truth discovery, nor discussing thi
by dude187 5y ago
"The canard of the armed civilian mass-shooting hero "
A premise like this just proves you're not interested in any sort of truth discovery, nor discussing this issue in good faith.
Guns are excellent tools for self defense.
- cratermoon 5y ago> Guns are excellent tools for self defense. Not really. The research generally points towards defensive gun use being rare and, when it does happen, are associated with escalated arguments, and are both socially undesirable and illegal Survey Research and Self-Defense Gun Use: An Explanation of Extreme Overestimates: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1144020 https://www.jstor.org/stable/1144020 The epidemiology of self-defense gun use: evidence from the National Crime Victimization Surveys 2007-2011 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25910555/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25910555/ Gun Threats and Self-Defense Gun Use: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/gun-threats-and-self-defense-gun-use-2/ https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/gun-thr...
- dude187 5y agoHemenway is not reputable. His "research" isn't research, it's advocacy given official backing.
- cratermoon 5y agoOh? Could you provide some references for this? Also, what researchers would you recommend instead?