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To: tarawa
A RKBA bump.

He uses it only when he really needs it. So far, that's been three times. "Each time," Lee says, "the threat was ended the minute I presented the gun."

And those three times will appear nowhere in the statistics used to analyze "gun violence." These are biased by the requirement for the gun to actually be shot before the incident counts as a successful employment of a firearm in self-defense. Recall this next time you hear VPC or the Brady bunch bleating about guns being "more likely to be used on you than for you." It just ain't so.

2 posted on 05/23/2002 10:15:45 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill
Great point. Also impossible to measure are the crimes that are never committed in the first place, as criminals become more wary for fear that a potential victim may be armed.
9 posted on 05/23/2002 11:08:53 AM PDT by ChiefsMan
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