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Gunfight or Flee: New Study Finds No Advantages to Using a Firearm in Self-Defense Situations
thetrace.org ^ | 7/14/2015 | Evan Defilippis and Devin Hughes

Posted on 07/15/2015 9:40:06 AM PDT by rktman

Contrary to what many gun advocates argue, the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) data reveals that having a gun provides no statistically significant benefit to a would-be victim during a criminal confrontation.

(Excerpt) Read more at thetrace.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; guncontrol
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To: smoothsailing

A couple of beta males, government appeasers, and nancy boys if I ever saw one.


81 posted on 07/15/2015 11:24:02 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer
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To: rktman

Yeah, i really belive this. Not.


82 posted on 07/15/2015 11:24:10 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: MeganC

This must be the first thing done from this study.

Imagine no more crimnal shooting payday lawsuits against taxpayers.

No more deaths from shooting citizens thinking that street thugs are invading their house.

Imagine how much safer your dog will be in his own fenced in backyard without cops running into your yard and shooting them. Or just aiming over the fence and blowing your pup away.

The cops will be so much safer and tey’ll certainly all go home at night, as its their #1 priority over everything else.


83 posted on 07/15/2015 11:28:06 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Darteaus94025

If it saves just one child. Thats the libtard excuse. Throw this one out there for disarming the cops.


84 posted on 07/15/2015 11:29:02 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Arm_Bears

I think obama ordered them to do this for him awhile ago.

Pat of the reggie love updated field pack.


85 posted on 07/15/2015 11:30:44 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Lazamataz

Good job, Laz! I hope everyone here considers the BIASED source.


86 posted on 07/15/2015 11:34:20 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: Swordmaker

Yes, I did. The would-be-burglar and his partner/driver DID escape my property that day because I was not willing to shoot them as they fled.

However, my descriptions of the men and their van helped local police track them down and arrest them. They were part of a residential burglary ring that had operated for several months in the area I was living at the time. They would “case” houses over the course of several days and then choose a “break-in” time based on when it appeared no one was home.

They had apparently targeted us and noted our work schedules. However, what they did not know on the particular Tuesday they decided to hit my house was that I was actually home. I had been involved in a fairly serious motorcycle racing accident the previous weekend, and I had been instructed to take a couple days off work due to a concussion, and broken wrist, foot and T4 vertebrae.

My wife was at work, so her car was gone. My truck was not there because we had left it at the race track when I was hauled away in an ambulance the previous Saturday, and had not made it back out there to pick it up. I guess they noticed both vehicles missing and assumed neither of us was home.

Perhaps the funniest thing about the whole event is that at the time I stepped out on my deck with the gun and startled the burglar, my left leg was in a walking cast, I had a cast on my left arm, I was walking/shuffling very stiffly due to the pain in my spine, and the whites of BOTH my eyes were a bright, brilliant RED color. I looked like some kind of mutant zombie, and when that dude looked up and saw me and that very large revolver, I’ll bet he thought he was facing evil incarnate. In any event, he wasted no time running down my driveway to the van screaming to his friend the whole way.

Overall, the whole incident was kind of entertaining, and it provided a brief respite from the pain I was in at the time.


87 posted on 07/15/2015 11:35:12 AM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: rktman

According to Bloomie, it’s better to have a cellphone by your bed in case of home invasion. Also:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wypFgcqHyvc&feature=youtu.be


88 posted on 07/15/2015 11:47:56 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( "Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: smoothsailing

OMG! They have KY Jelly stains on their sports coats!!!!!!!!


89 posted on 07/15/2015 12:37:13 PM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: rktman

Ah....more fiction form what I refer to as the “Pro-Rape Faction”.


90 posted on 07/15/2015 1:05:40 PM PDT by buffaloguy
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To: Kickass Conservative
He told my Brother that if he ever had to defend himself the ONLY thing he should tell the Police is “I was in fear of my Life”, period.

Good advice.

91 posted on 07/15/2015 1:25:37 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: rktman
What is a "would be victim"? Is that someone who goes out in hopes of getting robbed? Idiot writers.
92 posted on 07/15/2015 4:43:29 PM PDT by Dilbert56
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To: smoothsailing

Here seen accepting their pajamaboy award.


93 posted on 07/15/2015 8:17:34 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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