Posted on 10/07/2009 3:44:32 PM PDT by genetic homophobe
Packing heat may backfire. People who carry guns are far likelier to get shot – and killed – than those who are unarmed, a study of shooting victims in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has found.
(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...
No, being in an area where one is highly motivated to carry a gun, i.e. dangerous neighborhoods, increases your chances of getting shot.
Someone has confused cause and effect. People who believe they have an increased risk of being shot at are more likely to arm themselves. Drug dealers don’t get shot at because they’re armed.
A look at the article, it would seem that a lot of these were thug wannabes who failed to advance in their career choice.
the study really indicates.... how to say stupid things and get away with them.
Packing heat may backfire. People who carry guns illegally are far likelier to get shot – and killed – than those who are unarmed, a study of shooting victims in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has found.
Corrected.
Regards, Doodle
They’re misspelling the title of their publication. “Non-Scientist” starts N-O-N-, not N E W.
On the other hand, NOT carrying a gun ALSO increases your risk of getting shot and killed. I think they cancel each other out.
"While it may be that the type of women who take out restraining orders against ex's are simply more likely to be the targets of violent lunatics, it may be that the restraining orders give a false sense of security that causes them to remain less vigilant, or encourages them not to stay cowering in their homes with their fingers poised over the 9-1-1 speed dial button."
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Since when are there neighborhoods we "probably shouldn't visit"? I was under the impression that this was a free country where we have the right to go into any neighborhood we choose.
I am sure these stats are skewed by all of the gang violence that occurs between rival factions who.....yup, you guessed it...carry guns. Of course, this fact is buried nice and deep in the stats so the author can imply that carrying a gun is more dangerous than not.
JoMa
Only if you’re using it to rob someone who is also carrying.
I’m sure they took a very scientific sample of drug dealers in the Philadelphia ‘hood. They may have included a few in Pittsburgh just for good measure.
Armed gangbangers killing other armed gangbangers. No mystery here.
That is surely true of criminals -home invaders and robbers- who carry guns in the commission of their crimes. Intended victims who a have guns close to hand tend to shoot the gun carrying bad guys. It is those poor victimized crime workers that are mourned by the sort of folks who write articles like this one.
Remember: When seconds count, the police are just minutes away.
and they get shot a lot by each other thus loading up the stats.
This is all in Phily. It should state that gangbangers are more likely to get shot because they are shooting at each other. Mumia also shot a cop who was carying a gun.
I wonder if the study includes soldiers and jihadis in war zones.
Compares the percentage carrying guns in assaults (FBI figures say 70% of those, whether victim or assaulter, already have felony records, so are carring illegally) with those in the general population (but there only those carring legally can be measured, so underestimates guns carried)
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