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Originally Posted by Angry American
Yet instruments of death are used more frequently in criminal acts upon victims, than they are used to defend victims from criminal acts. Though I guess the argument would be to increase gun ownership, then maybe more criminals would be killed in acts of defense, than victims of crime.
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From your source on defensive use of firearms above:
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On average in 1987-92 about 83,000 crime victims per year used a
firearm to defend themselves or their property. Three-fourths of
the victims who used a firearm for defense did so during a violent
crime; a fourth, during a theft, household burglary, or motor
vehicle theft.
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So, from your opening article we have, give or take, 31,000 deaths by firearms in a given year, over half of which are suicides.
Versus an average of 83,000 defensive uses per year.
Or, around 6 defensive uses per death caused by a criminal act.
It seems your claim that "instruments of death are used more frequently in criminal acts upon victims, than they are used to defend victims from criminal acts" is way off.
Matt
{edited to clean up a typo in the figures}