While concealed carry laws are not the sole reason for the reduction in violent crime in America, they have played a critical role in that result, affording protection to individuals and deterring criminals. The police do not keep track of defensive uses of a gun, but some fifteen national polls, including one by the Los Angeles Times, found between 700,000 and 3.6 million defensive uses of guns annually. Studies have shown that some 98% of the time an armed citizen merely has to brandish his or her gun to stop an attack.Media Matters counters by citing a study conducted by, among others, rabidly anti-gun Dr. David Hemenway, which casually dismisses these hundreds of thousands (or millions) of defensive gun uses--and in a rather surprising manner:
A majority of the reported self defense gun uses were rated as probably illegal by a majority of judges. This was so even under the assumption that the respondent had a permit to own and carry the gun, and that the respondent had described the event honestly.We are to believe that self-defense gun uses were "probably illegal"--a majority of them.
A government that makes self-defense a crime is a government that is on the side of those who would kill you and yours. It is, indeed, a government that does not deserve to be allowed to continue to exist.
http://armedandsafe.blogspot.com/2011/09/if-defensive-gun-uses-are-illegal-thats.html
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