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Gunfight or Flee: New Study Finds No Advantages to Using a Firearm in Self-Defense Situations
thetrace.org ^
| 7/14/2015
| Evan Defilippis and Devin Hughes
Posted on 07/15/2015 9:40:06 AM PDT by rktman
Contrary to what many gun advocates argue, the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) data reveals that having a gun provides no statistically significant benefit to a would-be victim during a criminal confrontation.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; guncontrol
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To: Lazamataz
Well, they may not have fudged data but the probably packed fu............. Never mind.
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posted on
07/15/2015 9:50:11 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
To: John S Mosby
“National Crime Victimization Survey”
The name alone spells bullsh*t. I guess what this bogus gun control scam is telling us it’s better to bend over than fight back.
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posted on
07/15/2015 9:50:12 AM PDT
by
max americana
(fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
To: rktman
Study Finds No Advantages to Using a Firearm in Self-Defense SituationsThen why do FBI and ATF agents carry a gun to defend themselves when making arrests?
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posted on
07/15/2015 9:50:21 AM PDT
by
GregoTX
(Remember the Alamo)
To: rktman
I guess the Secret Service agents assigned to Obama will be packing feather boas from now on.
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posted on
07/15/2015 9:50:32 AM PDT
by
Arm_Bears
(Biology is biology. Everything else is imagination.)
To: Sans-Culotte
It’s also Horse Shit...I KNOW! I just got back in the house after cleaning the corrals.
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posted on
07/15/2015 9:50:33 AM PDT
by
rockinqsranch
((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
To: rktman
None of the people I know who have used guns for self-defense have ever reported the incident to the government, so I doubt their statistics are accurate.
And, of course, their argument is irrelevant to any 2nd Amendment argument, since the 2nd Amendment isn't about self-defense from individuals.
To: Fiddlstix; rktman
Me too.
My TBA (Tragic Boating Accident) was in a john-boat, though, not a canoe.
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posted on
07/15/2015 9:50:42 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
To: rktman
I tried to read the article all the way through just to say I did but couldn’t make it. The whole premise is so stupid and the numbers so manipulated its ridiculous.
Well I need to go clean my gun. :=)
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posted on
07/15/2015 9:50:43 AM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: tet68
Yeah! Right!
ROTFL
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posted on
07/15/2015 9:50:53 AM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: rktman
So the Secret Service, Capitol Police, FBI, State Police, celebrity bodyguards and FEMA have just traded in their weapons for running shoes?
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posted on
07/15/2015 9:51:10 AM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
To: WayneS
Hmmm. Bayou accident? So you can “buy you” some new ones? :>}
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posted on
07/15/2015 9:52:20 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
To: rktman
The two “punks” with a piece of pipe that confronted my wife and I certainly thought my .45 was an advantage.
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posted on
07/15/2015 9:53:08 AM PDT
by
Hornet22
To: rktman
New Study?
New Propaganda....
To: Las Vegas Ron
I would agree, and add “more power to them”, if they managed it.
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posted on
07/15/2015 9:53:47 AM PDT
by
mrsmel
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: rktman
The authors.....
Evan Defilippis and Devin Hughes
To: rktman
Chance of injury is virtually the same. 10.9% vs 11%.
Yes, but me having a gun insures that the injury will be to them, not me.
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posted on
07/15/2015 9:56:36 AM PDT
by
Aut Pax Aut Bellum
(I love my dogs, but a .45 is man's best friend...)
To: rktman
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posted on
07/15/2015 9:56:36 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Back in the 1970's, Iran used to call us the "Great Satan". Turns out they were right all along.)
To: rktman
The people conducting this study never read The Armed Citizen in my monthly American Hunter magazine. My daughter sees it in the mail and beats me to that column. Then she photographs the stories and sends them out on Instagram to her friends.
The laugh about it. Like the Darwin Awards.
To: rktman
Lol, study finds most studies are manure.
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posted on
07/15/2015 9:58:26 AM PDT
by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: rktman
We know what Lynne Russell told us about that.
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posted on
07/15/2015 9:58:28 AM PDT
by
pfflier
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