My firearms instructor who had once been stabbed said he would rather be shot than stabbed.
For hunting, for food.
Guns have all kinds of use.
The facts are this. If you don’t live in a drug house or a home in a drug infested neighborhood or a home where gang activity, violence or other forms of criminal activity is commonplace, the studies most often used to claim that you are more at risk with a gun in your home than without are pure bull****. In fact the study most often cited studies 3 specifically targeted communities...all 3 chosen for their known high incidents of criminal activity. The VAST majority of gun owners are safe with their possession, ownership, and usage of firearms. On those rare occasions where relatively safe homes are broken into with the occupants at home, far more often than not, the intruders are driven away be it by dogs barking, someone shouting down the hallway letting the intruder know they are home and are on the phone with the cops, or if they are met by armed response. Stats show that defensive responses using a firearm occur somewhere between 2 to 2.5 million times a year. Defensive USE of said firearms...where the firearm was actually discharged...is for less...somewhere between 80,000 and 200,000 times a year. When people want to make the case that you are less safe with a gun than without, they ONLY focus on defensive USE, AND they also include suicides...which statistically dwarf the number deaths by firearm incurred during a home
Invasion.
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There isnt a single comment I made that is a falsehood. And lets not pretend are going to change your mind no matter how much the truth ****s in your face.
These are commonly known facts and experience on this site demonstrates that even after presented with proof, anti-gun leftists just slink away from the thread only to repost the same lies again in other threads.
And yet you had no problem accusing me of lying with no previous exchanges.
Do you really think I dont have the link to the bull**** Kellerman Study from 1986 that the left constantly quotes that focused on ONE county...King County Washington? Do you think I dont have the links to the Crime Bureau stats that show 200+ or the Harvard study...an antigun study that shows much lower estimates at around 80,000? Or hey...how about the Hemenway study where after attempting to refute the Kleck studies (studies called by Marvin Wolfgang, who was acknowledged in 1994 by the British Journal of Criminology as ″the most influential criminologist in the English-speaking world″ whostated about Kleck's research on defensive gun use "I am as strong a gun-control advocate as can be found among the criminologists in this country. The Kleck and Gertz study impresses me for the caution the authors exercise and the elaborate nuances they examine methodologically. I do not like their conclusions that having a gun can be useful, but I cannot fault their methodology. They have tried earnestly to meet all objections in advance and have done exceedingly well.") by claiming phone surveys are 'unreliable, then USED phone surveys to offer Harvards two studies from 1996 and 1999...studies still cited today?
BOTH SIDES claim 'prominent studies' are false based on their bias and bent.
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