[aruanan]

I have a boss who was talking about some report saying that people who had guns and were victims of a home invasion were more likely than not to be shot by the invaders with their own guns after having been disarmed. Yeah, I said. Better to give up those guns and be completely at the mercy of the home invaders.

I said all that statistic means is that homeowners need to have more training in planning for a home invasion and completely wiping out the invaders. After this happens a few highly publicized times, future, not-yet-dead, home invaders may start doing the "this could happen to you" imagination game and realize the potential cost of doing that kind of business is just too high for comfort.

[VerySadAmerican]

Two thugs attempted to rob the wrong family in NW Houston the other day. The guy killed one and injured the other. And it didn’t take a bunch of rounds either.

[jazusamo]

I believe you're boss may have been reading propaganda put out by the gun grabbers. There's much evidence to the contrary and here's one article from Forbes.

excerpt:

As much as gun control advocates might wish otherwise, their attacks are running out of ammo. With private firearm ownership at an all-time high and violent crime rates plunging, none of the scary scenarios they advanced have materialized. Abuse of responsibility by armed citizens is rare, while successful defensive interventions against assaults on their lives and property are relatively commonplace.

National violent crime rates that soared for 30 years from the early 1960s began to decrease markedly since 1993. Last December the FBI reported that murder and other violent crime rates fell again by 6.4% during the first half of 2011 compared with the same period in 2010. A Gallup poll indicates that “Americans’ preference regarding gun laws is generally that the government enforce existing laws more strictly and not pass new laws.”

Disarming the Myths Promoted By the Gun Control Lobby

[ez]

The “report” your boss referred to is no doubt bull squat. The percentage of times gun owners are shot by invaders with their own guns is surely in the low single digits, based on my attention to news stories, and common sense.

More likely your boss heard an MSM “expert” warn that you could be shot with your own gun and believed that had the weigh of a “report.”

[70times7]

You gave your boss too much credit.

When I hear such BS I ask for information, "please tell me where I can read that report - it sounds interesting. Did it really say..." I estimate that 95% of the time their claim will crumble before you, or more likely, they will not be willing or able to provide a source. The other 4.9% of the time the report itself will be a pack of lies.

I'll bet one of these is the case here: either your boss made that up, or the writer did.