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Originally Posted by goober
I touched a raw nerve, just pointing out that the people I know who carry have on balance brought more harm to themselves than they have avoided by carrying.
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Probably because you claimed that ALL people who carry are like those whom you knew.
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Originally Posted by goober
Those are the facts I have, I know it's just anecdotal, but it's all still true.
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No, those were not "facts" which you expressed. You used your personal opinion of the actions of a few whom you knew. Actions which you probably interpreted differently than most would because you were privy to information which caused you to see their actions in a negative light - said information being that you knew they carried.
In turn, you projected your biases and limited experience onto everyone, and in the process accused many of us of behavior we find abhorrent.
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Originally Posted by goober
meanwhile, I'd love to see where that 750,000 defensive uses of firearms a year comes from, cuz it sounds like it's been pulled right out of thin air.
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Sure, no problem. Here you go:
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/165476.pdf
Read it and LEARN.
Here are the results of another 13 studies which find the number of uses to be between 764k per year and 4.5 million per year.
GunCite: Frequency of Defensive Gun Use in Previous Surveys
In addition, there is the NCVS result which, while substantially smaller than the rest, is STILL orders of magnitude greater than the number of criminal uses at 108,000 times per year.
In short Goober, the number of legal and legitimate uses of a firearm far outstrip the number of criminal uses. On that basis alone, gun ownership is demonstrably of greater benefit than harm.