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Originally Posted by cologal
Here is a link on gun violence against women:
Too Many Victims of Gun Violence Are Women : Ms. Magazine Blog
Information from the link....
In 2008, 7,451 women were treated in emergency rooms across America for gunshot wounds, 66 percent of which were assault-related. In 2007, 1,865 women were murdered with firearms. Firearms are more common in abusive homes, and batterers often threaten their victims with guns, sometimes implicitly, by cleaning, holding or loading guns during arguments. |
Myth: Guns are not a good deterrent to crime
Fact: Guns prevent an estimated 2.5 million crimes a year or 6,849 every day. Often the gun is never fired and no blood (including the criminal’s) is shed.
Fact: It seems to be slowing down property crime (especially burglaries).
Fact: Every day 550 rapes, 1,100 murders, and 5,200 other violent crimes are prevented just by showing a gun. In less than 0.9% of these instances is the gun ever actually fired.
Myth: Private ownership of guns is not effective in preventing crime
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. Of these instances, 15.6% of the people using firearms defensively stated that they "almost certainly" saved their lives by doing so.
Firearms are used 60 times more often to protect lives than to take lives.
Fact: The number of times per year an American uses a firearm to deter a home invasion alone is 498,000.
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.
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.
Fact: Less than 8% of the time does a citizen wound his or her attacker, and in less than one in a thousand instances is the attacker killed.
Fact: In one local review of firearm homicide, more than 12% were civilian legal defensive homicides.
Fact: For every accidental death (802), suicide (16,869) or homicide (11,348) with a
firearm (29,019), 13 lives (390,000) are preserved through defensive use.
Here is a link to back all this information up:
Gun Facts - Gun Control | Facts | Debunk | Myths
Everyone really needs to get educated on firearm ownership. Should everyone own a firearm? Should everyone be allowed to drive? The answer to both of these question is NO. But one is a right and the other is a privilege. Nothing in the United States Constitution grants any of us the right to drive, but the second amendment grants all
law abiding citizens the RIGHT to own firearms. You lose this right when you commit offenses against the established laws of the land and nation.
Gun control is nothing other than PEOPLE CONTROL. The government should fear us, the citizens, we the people should not fear our government.