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I think most people almost believe that guns don't put themselves together, load themselves, and kill people. Or maybe they don't say it because they don't like me laughing at them.
Here are some myths and facts. The article has the references they use to make their cases. So all the sheeple out there, before you make yourselves stoopid, you can look at the original sources of the information in detail.
In the photos, these are all competitive female shooters, all record holders, or medal winners. The last one is a Bronze medal winner in the Paralympics in Rio.
Myth: Private ownership of guns is not effective in preventing crime
Fact:
“Victims who have and use guns have both lower losses and lesser injury rates from violent crime.” 1
GUNS AND CRIME PREVENTION - Armed Felon Attitudes toward Armed Victims
Fact: Every year, people in the United States use guns to defend themselves against criminals an estimated 2,500,000 times – more than 6,500 people a day, or once every 13 seconds. 2 Of these instances, 15.7% of the people using firearms defensively stated that they “almost certainly” saved their lives by doing so.
Fact: Even the government’s estimate, which has a major methodology problem, 3 estimates people defend themselves 235,700 times each year with guns. 4
Fact: Victims with guns “would reduce … the criminals’ incentives to commit violent crimes and to be armed.” 5
Fact: The number of times per year an American uses a firearm to deter a home invasion alone is 498,000. 6
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. 7
Fact: There are approximately 182,000 defensive gun uses in public each year. 8
Fact: The rate of defensive gun use (DGU) is six times that of criminal gun use. 9
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. 10
Fact: In most of the remaining 8% of defensive gun uses, a citizen never wounds his or her attacker (they fire warning shots), and in less than one in a thousand instances is the attacker killed. 11
Fact: 41% of justifiable homicides using a gun were by private citizens, the others by law enforcement. 12
Fact: In one local review of firearm homicide, more than 12% were civilian legal defensive homicides. 13
Fact: For every accidental death (802), suicide (16,869) or homicide (11,348) 14 with a firearm (29,019), 13 lives (390,000) 15 are preserved through defensive use.
Fact: When using guns in self-defense, 91.1% of the time, not a single shot is fired. 16
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. 17
Myth: The small number of self-defense killings shows that private gun ownership does nothing
Fact: Most DGUs do not involve firing a gun. The average private gun owner who uses guns for self defense take non-fatal actions, such as brandishing the weapon. In other instances, they may fire a warning shot or intentionally would their attacker. 18
Myth: Armed civilians have no effect an mass shootings
Fact: One tracking database 19 shows that 41.3% of “active shooter events” were terminated by armed civilians. Outside of “gun free zones” the rate climbs to 63.5%.
Myth: You are more likely to be injured or killed using a gun for self-defense
Fact: You are far more likely to survive violent assault if you defend yourself with a gun. 25
Myth: Guns are not effective in preventing crime against women
Fact: Of the 2,500,000 annual self-defense cases using guns, more than 7.7% (192,500) are by women defending themselves against sexual abuse.
Fact: When a woman was armed with a gun or knife, only 3% of rape attacks were completed, compared to 32% when the woman was unarmed. 26
Reported Rape Rates 1995–2003 (per 100,000 pop.)
1995 2003 % Change
Australia 72.5 91.7 +26.5
United Kingdom 43.3 69.2 +59.8
United States 37.1 32.1 -13.5
Fact: The probability of serious injury from an attack is 2.5 times greater for women offering no resistance than for women resisting with guns. Men also benefit from using guns, but the benefits are smaller: Men are 1.4 times more likely to receive a serious injury. 27
Fact:28.5% of women have one or more guns in the house. 28
Fact: 41.7% of women either own or have convenient access to guns. 29
Fact: In 1966, the city of Orlando responded to a wave of sexual assaults by offering firearms training classes to women. Rapes dropped by nearly 90% the following year.
GUNS AND CRIME PREVENTION - Rape Rate in England and Wales before and after major gun control actsFact:Bold Firearm availability appears to be particularly useful in avoiding rape. The United Kingdom virtually banned handgun ownership. During the same period handgun ownership in the United States steadily rose. Yet the rate of rape decreased in the United States and skyrocketed in the other countries, as shown in the table.
Fact: More Americans believe having a gun in the home makes them safer. This belief grows every year the survey is taken. 30
Fact: Arthur Kellerman, a researcher whose work is often cited by gun control groups, said “If you’ve got to resist, your chances of being hurt are less the more lethal your weapon. If that were my wife, would I want her to have a .38 Special in her hand? Yeah.” 31
