Gun Control & RKBA
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Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)jmg257
(11,996 posts)And he spoke at their convention.
No big surprises there.
He is a bit...wishy-washy on guns, so they are not all that bright either.
"The endorsement comes despite persistent skepticism from conservatives over Trump's sincerity on the Second Amendment, after the candidate shifted from backing an assault weapons ban in 2000 to voicing outspoken opposition to any weapons bans and support for an expansion of gun rights since launching his presidential bid."
scscholar
(2,902 posts)That's how you know.
pablo_marmol
(2,375 posts)Easy to know a Controller. He/she will use infantile shaming and felony-dishonest argumentation.
Defensive uses of guns are common:
Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million per year
in the context of about 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008. (emphasis added)
Armed citizens are less likely to be injured by an attacker:
Studies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns (i.e., incidents in which a gun was used by the crime victim in the sense of attacking or threatening an offender) have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies.
Mass shootings and accidental firearm deaths account for a small fraction of gun-related deaths, and both are declining:
The number of public mass shootings of the type that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School accounted for a very small fraction of all firearm-related deaths. Since 1983 there have been 78 events in which 4 or more individuals were killed by a single perpetrator in 1 day in the United States, resulting in 547 victims and 476 injured persons. The report also notes, Unintentional firearm-related deaths have steadily declined during the past century. The number of unintentional deaths due to firearm-related incidents accounted for less than 1 percent of all unintentional fatalities in 2010.
Interventions (i.e, gun control) such as background checks, so-called assault rifle bans and gun-free zones produce mixed results:
Whether gun restrictions reduce firearm-related violence is an unresolved issue. The report could not conclude whether passage of right-to-carry laws decrease or increase violence crime.
Gun buyback/turn-in programs are ineffective in reducing crime:
There is empirical evidence that gun turn in programs are ineffective, as noted in the 2005 NRC study Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review. For example, in 2009, an estimated 310 million guns were available to civilians in the United States (Krouse, 2012), but gun buy-back programs typically recover less than 1,000 guns (NRC, 2005). On the local level, buy-backs may increase awareness of firearm violence. However, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for example, guns recovered in the buy-back were not the same guns as those most often used in homicides and suicides (Kuhn et al., 2002).
Stolen guns and retail/gun show purchases account for very little crime:
More recent prisoner surveys suggest that stolen guns account for only a small percentage of guns used by convicted criminals.
According to a 1997 survey of inmates, approximately 70 percent of the guns used or possess by criminals at the time of their arrest came from family or friends, drug dealers, street purchases, or the underground market.
The vast majority of gun-related deaths are not homicides, but suicides:
Between the years 2000-2010 firearm-related suicides significantly outnumbered homicides for all age groups, annually accounting for 61 percent of the more than 335,600 people who died from firearms related violence in the United States.
http://www.nap.edu/read/18319/chapter/1
Straw Man
(6,771 posts)Shall we put you in the "in favor of extra-judicial denial of rights" column, then?
"Terrorist loophole"? Puh-leeze ...
ileus
(15,396 posts)stone space
(6,498 posts)Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)Simple question
pablo_marmol
(2,375 posts)pablo_marmol
(2,375 posts)stone space
(6,498 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,577 posts)...nice dodge.
pablo_marmol
(2,375 posts)It has everything to do with your topic, given that the CDC has recognized that a gun is what delivers a victim of assault the best chance for a good outcome.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,577 posts)...to be an anti-control wet blanket.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)virginia mountainman
(5,046 posts)stone space
(6,498 posts)The NRA Candidate is going down, and women will be the reason.
DonP
(6,185 posts)And you choose to ignore the CDC reports on the effective use of guns by women.
So what other decisions do you make for women?
Just curious is it's just this one issue or if you feel you know better on others too?
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,577 posts)I just stop by a pro-control post and one you folks have generally done it for me.
pablo_marmol
(2,375 posts)jmg257
(11,996 posts)back in March.
Now this...
Why More Urban Women Own Guns: Self-Defense and the Second Amendment
The image of the U.S. firearm owner is shifting, a definitive survey shows. Urban American women explain the change: "Women are the prey."
·September 21, 2016
MIDDLE RIVER, MARYLAND She only owns a handgun. Shes more likely than male gun owners to live in an urban area, and less likely to have grown up in a gun-friendly household.
And regardless of how many and what types of guns she owns, shes more likely to report owning firearms for protection than men.
This is the portrait of the American female gun owner, as depicted by the most definitive survey of U.S. gun ownership in two decades. While gun ownership has long been dominated by men in the U.S., the survey finds that the percentage of women who choose to pack heat is increasing.
Of those who own handguns only, 43 percent are women, and nearly a quarter of those women live in urban areas, according to new research from Northeastern University and the Harvard School of Public Health.
...
I really think women are driving the growth [in gun ownership] because its now accessible to them in ways it has never been before, Lightfoot said.
https://www.thetrace.org/2016/09/female-urban-gun-ownership-harvard-northeastern-university/