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beardown

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2. Most excellent analysis.
Thu Oct 29, 2015, 12:06 AM
Oct 2015

Great data judo as your used their own data.

"7.98 times more often than used to commit criminal homicide. " is a telling ratio. This favors lawful gun owners as a net good, ergo, concentrate on removing guns from criminals and promoting safer gun storage and handling.

This is a very nice statistical presentation of the paradox that gun haters present when they claim every gun owner is a murderous thug itching to kill someone and yet highlight every time a gun owner does not shoot someone given a legal defensive situation and the overall lack of numbers of gun killed perps by civilians.

I'm assuming that suicides by gun are not included as a homicide and will obviously be added to any statistical analysis by anti-gunners. As tragic as suicides are and the lethal effect guns add to the issue, they should not be part of defensive gun use per criminal gun use equation.

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Most excellent analysis. beardown Oct 2015 #2
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K&R...fantastic analysis. Eom. Kang Colby Oct 2015 #3
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