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Originally Posted by Guest
NO, you linked an opinion article.
On the other hand, this is a good reason to make it easier for gun purchases. More guns, more suicides, less liberals. Kind of a post-natal abortion of sorts. Why should everyone else work hard, just to coddle the weak anyway? That's the responsibility of the family, not the whole community, state, country. Time to cut back on spending money on the weak, if they don't want it.
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The study (available as a PDF) calls the defensive use of guns by crime victims "a common occurrence, although the exact number remains disputed." While it might be as high as 3 million defensive uses of guns each year, some scholars point to the much lower estimate of 108,000 times a year. "The variation in these numbers remains a controversy in the field," the study notes.
The quotes are from the report that you hold in high regard.