Posted on 12/31/2019 10:39:13 AM PST by Kaslin
Instances of defensive gun use save lives every day, but the stories get very little news coverage and the negative gun use instances are often covered by the national news media for days on end.
Studies on incidents of defensive gun use range anywhere from an absurdly low 55,000 to a high of 4.7 million per year. The most commonly cited and widely accepted is the 1995 study by Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz, which estimates that between 2.1 and 2.5 million defensive gun use instances occur in the United States each year.
By contrast, from 1993-2011, nonfatal firearm-related crime ranged between 1,287,190 and 331,618 incidents per year. This data makes a strong case that defensive gun use is much more common than firearm-related crime. Instances of defensive gun use save lives every day, but the stories get very little news coverage, while the statistically much fewer negative gun uses are often covered by the national news media for days on end.
PoliceOne’s Gun Policy and Law Enforcement survey, which was conducted in March 2013, received more than 15,000 responses from verified police professionals. The survey found that almost 90 percent of police agree mass shootings would be “reduced” or “avoided altogether” by the presence of legally armed citizens. It is also not a coincidence that the huge majority of mass shootings take place in gun-free zones.
To actually save lives, we need a lot fewer gun-free zones and a lot more abortion-free zones. The most recent abortion data available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is for 2015. It shows there were 638,169 legal, induced abortions reported to the CDC from 49 reporting areas. It’s important to note that states and areas are not required to report their abortion data to the CDC, and the large state of California doesn’t at all, so these numbers are certainly underestimated.
Citing stats from the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 2016 and the Guttmacher Institute for 2014, the pro-life organization Live Action states that 7,741 Americans were killed by guns in one year while 926,200 children were killed in the womb in one year. The facts clearly show that abortion is far deadlier than firearms.
There is also strong statistical and circumstantial evidence that abortion is very often carried out in a way that is both racist and sexist. From the 2015 CDC data, black Americans accounted for 36 percent of abortions while only making up about 13 percent of the U.S. population. In very liberal New York City, more black children were aborted than were born alive in 2015.
Why do the statistics show that black Americans are disproportionately targeted? Isn’t it wrong and a form of racism to encourage the abortion of a black child in the womb because his life holds no value to you?
Sex-selective abortion is clearly discrimination against women, and it’s not just happening in China and India. Current estimates are that as many as 200 million girls may have been victims of sex-selective abortion worldwide.
Undercover investigations of U.S. Planned Parenthood abortion clinics by Live Action have documented clinic workers at multiple locations supporting sex-selective abortions. In response, Planned Parenthood issued a statement saying they are against gender bias, but in practice Planned Parenthood seems to support abortion for any reason. The United Kingdom bans sex-selective abortion, but the United States does not have a nationwide law against it.
Less than 1 percent of abortions are due to rape, incest, or a risk to the life of the mother, yet those who are pro-choice use this argument 99 percent of the time to justify killing children in the womb.
Upholding our Second Amendment rights and an increased presence of legally armed citizens will without a doubt save lives. Reducing and ultimately ending abortion will, without a doubt, also save lives, especially of women and black Americans.
And to know so many people are willfully ignorant of these facts, makes me blush for mankind.
Another good one Kaslin, thanks.
self-defense == pro-life
Likewise: No Gun = certain death.
Shocking conclusion, I know....
Its simple really.
We live in a world of life and death...impermanance.
Nothing that we see around us will likely be here in 500 years,or not much of what is around us in even 100 years.
Part of that impermanence involves animals that actually devour other animals as a matter of the natural order of fang and claw.
Some human beings become animals and to live and thrive, other humans need to resort to the natural order of fang and claw.Since humans do not have effective fang and claw, we resort to weaponry.
The right to resort to weaponry in the area of firearms is preserved by the 2nd Amendment of our Constitution and the right of self defense is set forth in our laws to the extent that we have a right to overthrow any government which has come under the control of human beings who have become animals or tyrants.
As proud Americans we revel in our freedom to dwell in the world protected in our pursuit of happiness.
Let no man or government attempt to remove that protection, or they do so at their own peril.
Happy New Year to All!
Yes. There are more good guys (and gals) than bad guys. Arming the good guys helps keep the bad guys dead.
The Right to Life is the Right to Self-Defense.
The Right to Self Defense is the Right to the Tools of Self-Defense.
If a government denies its citizens the means to self-defense - firearms - then it is denying its citizens’ right to life.
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More guns, less crime.
Not just a good idea, it’s a law of nature.
By contrast, from 1993-2011, nonfatal firearm-related crime ranged between 1,287,190 and 331,618 incidents per year. This data makes a strong case that defensive gun use is much more common than firearm-related crime. Instances of defensive gun use save lives every day, but the stories get very little news coverage, while the statistically much fewer negative gun uses are often covered by the national news media for days on end.
| Cause of Death | Actual | Reportage |
| Prevalence | ||
| Heart Disease | 30.2 % | < 3% |
| Cancer | 29.5% | < 14% |
| Road, Falls, Accidents | 7.6% | < 3% |
| Lower Respiratory Disease | 7.4% | < 3.5% |
| Alzheimer’s Disease | 5.6% | < 1% |
| Stroke | 4.9% | 5% |
| Diabetes | 3.8% | < 2.5% |
| Drug Overdose | 2.8% | < 1% |
| Kidney Disease | 2.7% | < 1% |
| Suicide | 1.8% | >10.6% |
| Homicide | 0.9% | >22% |
| Terrorism | < 0.01% | >33% |
ACCURACY-X VIDEO
After watching Steve’s video, I called him and we chatted for 5 minutes or so. My call was to alert him to the very real PROBABILITY that YouTube & Facebook and the other venues where he’s posted it WILL take it down and suggested that he post it to BRIGHTEON, BITCHUTE and any other sites he can identify.
He confessed to being a “reluctant warrior” in this battle...but he and his fellow Virginians believe this will get ugly before it gets resolved.
Please watch this one and SHARE, SHARE, SHARE.
He commented that Bloomberg & Soros have dumped MILLIONS of $$ into this one in Va. to get their new moron governor & others elected and went on to say that their NEXT targets are the Carolinas, Alabama and GEORGIA!!!
It’s not overstatement to say that we’re in the fight of our lifetimes. And it’s one we’d better win.
As some of you know, I bailed on FB but it would be helpful if those of you still in there go to his page and support him.
Here’s the link: https://www.facebook.com/Accuracy-X-Inc-344730025561939/
You can also see the video on FB if Suckerberg’s minions haven’t pulled it.
Dick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk_md3j5YZg
Where did you pull that chart from? I don’t think even states in the ME or Africa report 1/3 of death from terrorism..
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