With the recent mass-shootings, the Left will want more gun control. Know your GUN FACTS.

GunFacts.info ^

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This is a great resource full of DOCUMENTED, PEER-REVIEWED data, some of straight from the US Department of Justice, with an annotated bibliography.

Be prepared to shove facts down their throats, when they only have "feelings."

Here are few excerpts:

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Myth: Private ownership of guns is not effective in preventing crime

Fact: Every year, people in the United States use a gun to defend themselves against criminals an estimated 2,500,000 times – more than 6,500 people a day, or once every 13 seconds.112 Of these instances, 15.6% of the people using a firearm defensively stated that they "almost certainly" saved their lives by doing so.

Fact: Firearms are used 60 times more often to protect lives than to take lives.

Fact: In 83.5% (2,087,500) of these successful gun defenses, the attacker either threatened or used force first, proving that guns are very well suited for self-defense.

Fact: Of the 2,500,000 times citizens use guns to defend themselves, 92% merely brandish their gun or fire a warning shot to scare off their attackers.

Fact: Less than 8% of the time does a citizen wound his or her attacker, and in less than one in a thousand instances is the attacker killed.

Fact: For every accidental death, suicide, or homicide with a firearm, 10 lives are saved through defensive use. 114Fact: When using guns in self-defense:

• 83% of robbery victims were not injured.
• 88% of assault victims were not hurt.
• 76% of all self-defense use of guns never involve firing a single shot.

Fact: After the implementation of Canada's 1977 gun controls prohibiting handgun possession for protection, the “breaking and entering” crime rate rose 25%, surpassing the American rate.

Myth: Only police should have guns

Fact: “...most criminals are more worried about meeting an armed victim than they are about running into the police.

Fact: 11% of police shootingskill an innocent person - about 2% of shootings by citizens kill an innocent person.

Fact: Police have trouble keeping their own guns. Hundreds of firearms are missing from the FBI and 449 of them have been involved in crimes.118

Fact: People who saw the helplessness of the L.A. Police Department during the 1992 King Riots or the looting and violence in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina know that citizens need guns to defend themselves.

Myth: You are more likely to be injured or killed using a gun for self-defense

Fact: You are far more likely to survive a violent assault if you defend yourself with a gun. In episodes where a robbery victim was injured, the injury/defense rates were:119
• Resisting with a gun 6%
• Did nothing at all 25%
• Resisted with a knife 40%
• Non-violent resistance 45%

[Gilbo_3]

not an expert here either, I welcome some thoughts from the peanut gallery as well, and I agree we as a society, are grossly 'over-drugged'...

that said, the brain is a very complicated device, some problems MUST be medicated 'properly', which when done, gives relief to the individual, and being human, once they start feeling better they stop the meds and the brain kinda shorts out again...

former pastors' wife is a great example...they spent literally months/yrs at a time over her life [shes in her 80s] getting the 'right' combo of drugs to manage her brain chemicals...then she comes off of the meds and goes depression/'sick' again...as in emotionally dying, 'shut-in' sick/depressed...UN-functional...

at that point the previous cocktail doesnt work anymore and they start the whole process over again...

the last time the doctors stopped the meds due to a needed surgery, [they were concerned with reactions to the anesthesia ?] and its been well over a year now and they are just startin to get the right mix again...

of course, as said before, most of the population could simply benefit from diet and exercise, and a little 'reality' that life aint exactely about their petty selves and learn to live in 'the world' and accept their responsibilities...

too deep for most sheep...

[The Californian]

In general, with our medical system, there is no room or money for “optimal health”. Nowhere can I find an exit strategy off of meds. Why should anyone have to live a life dependent on a chemical cocktail?

It just isn’t in our medical communities best interest to introduce a patient to green veggies, fish, bone broth soups and perhaps some supplements. Any chemical should be short term to help jump start a person to a healthier life naturally. Nowhere in our giant agriculture/ food/ fda/ big medical is this even a realistic option.

Then, we have people stuck on chemicals forever, which any event can throw off the amounts, then you have a chemically dependent, now genuinely crazy person in charge of their meds.

Just doesn’t seem healthy to me.

My point on this thread (again, I don’t really follow the gun threads) is.... Why are their meds not a part of the fodder of their lives that we talk over endlessly? I know the answer - it is now a rhetorical question. Big medicine and Big News are tied together.

Anyway, if anyone you know is on meds, I think it is best to help them find an exit strategy which involves lifestyle and dietary changes - healthy ones.

Thanks

[DMG2FUN]

The only fact I want to know about guns is a simply one. The gun hating leftist constantly chant gun control laws are not being enforced.
Can these gun hating leftist tell me which gun control laws are not being enforced?