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Compare that number to the 1,500,000 times a year, according to the DoJ, that guns are used defensively by intended victims to stop violent crime. Constantly ta
by nirvana 14y ago
Compare that number to the 1,500,000 times a year, according to the DoJ, that guns are used defensively by intended victims to stop violent crime. Constantly talking about how many people have been killed while ignoring how many have been saved is profoundly dishonest.
The rate of violent crime in the USA is around 640 per 100,000 while in the UK it is closer to 2,500 per 100k.
Clearly banning guns doesn't lower violent crime. In fact, in the UK, after they banned guns, violent gun crime skyrocketed.... because the criminals knew that their victims were disarmed.
- showerst 14y agoDo you have a cite for that 1.5MM/year? The best numbers I could find from DOJ are from 2000, and suggest it's around 100,000. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:419E8WPZxdkJ:home.uchicago.edu/~ludwigj/papers/Crime_and_Justice_gundefense_2000.pdf+&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESioVHArQ0x6EMy1Ey4s6iuI3bTm6sgM6bxwjdSPX1BEh2BLNIw59H5_H8Cduf4MsotZ-X7-32FxTqU9gHbMWymRBsi_T4ShmiqfuFkPJRQMK1f4hb5yVErz2fJD_bUGpZkp_UuV&sig=AHIEtbSyrvICxjDop3P-omDg5h-pRj-I0w https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:419E8WPZxdkJ:...
- astrodust 14y agoI'm calling bullshit on this. Violent crime in the UK peaked in 1995 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Violent-crime-rates-UK-1981-to-2007.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Violent-crime-rates-UK-198...). Various types of gun bans were passed in 1988 and an even stricter one in 1997 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_(Amendment)_Act_1997 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_(Amendment)_Act_1997).