Posted on 03/13/2009 10:44:20 AM PDT by 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:
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%
Many people turn to anti-depressants to address a need that can only be addressed by Christ.
Nice kitty.
Ya just gotta wonder why a mother is able to murder her children, one after the other. It is just not natural.
I think many, many of these incidences probably have mind-altering stuff helping them in their thought process.
It is better to live. Even if it is bad. Don’t throw away life on those wretched drugs.
Believe me, I’m not looking for a fight. I don’t follow gun threads much, but have always wondered if anyone ever did a study to see how many mass murders were committed while on anti-depressants.
The drug lobby would probably highly discourage any such study.
Anyway, if this has been discussed thoroughly in past threads, I don’t need to keep it going.
This was a casual wonderment.
Thanks for the conversation!
WOW. OK, I feel silly asking this, but WHY is the focus on guns and not DRUGS?
No need to answer that. Big Pharma, ACLU, Liberal Left Wing Media.......
Same answer as everything else.
Gun facts #1) See Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Gun facts #2) I have a God given right to self protection.
Gun facts #3) Keep your guns clean, and practice, practice, practice.
Gun facts #4) Anyone who attempts to take away your right to keep and bear arms is your mortal enemy, and the mortal enemy of these United States.
Gun facts#5) Never surrender.
Ref #4:
“Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn’t allow him to do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians.”
-Alexander Hope, from the novel “Hope” by L. Neil Smith and Aaron Zelman
Nail on head!
6. The old sheriff was attending an awards dinner when a lady commented on his wearing his sidearm. ‘Sheriff, I see you have your pistol. Are you expecting trouble?’ ‘No Ma’am. If I were expecting trouble, I would have brought my shotgun.’
Just to add my $ 00.02:
Q: I see you have your pistol. Are you expecting trouble?’
Do you have a fire extinguisher at home?
Do you have First aide kit at home and in your car?
Spare tire in your car?
Flashlight?
These are things you have IN CASE of trouble, How is a gun any different?
I was always of the impression that it wasnt the taking of anti-depressants that caused the problem, rather the sudden withdrawl and resulting [shockwave] depression...
In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, a total of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated.
China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million ‘educated’ people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th Century after being deprived of their gun rights: 56 million.
Well, I am no expert, that is for sure. This was something I have just wondered about a lot.
I can tell you from much experience with friends, that many of the anti-depressants seem to make them seem dissociated from everyone else. Like a wall is between them and their emotions - in this environment, evil can fester.
It is just scary to watch someone get onto that stuff and seem to retreat from their emotions (including their conscience). I often think that diet, exercise and some good counseling sessions would be more useful.
Again, please don’t think I have spent much time considering this. It is just something that comes to mind whenever this kind of carnage happens. I always wonder why, when we delve into every part of their lives, the use of specific anti-depressants is not part of the general conversation (like their old girlfriends, where they like to go eat, how much time they spend on the net, and other kinds of odd information.)
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