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billh58

(6,641 posts) Mon May 16, 2016, 10:47 AM May 2016

Gun Threats and Self-Defense Gun Use

The following is a list from the Harvard School of Public Health. For explanations and sources, see the web page.

1-3. Guns are not used millions of times each year in self-defense.

4. Most purported self-defense gun uses are gun uses in escalating arguments and are both socially undesirable and illegal.

5. Firearms are used far more often to intimidate than in self-defense.

6. Guns in the home are used more often to intimidate intimates than to thwart crime.

7. Adolescents are far more likely to be threatened with a gun than to use one in self-defense.

8. Criminals who are shot are typically the victims of crime.

9-10. Few criminals are shot by decent law abiding citizens.

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/gun-threats-and-self-defense-gun-use-2/

The "need" for a gun for self-defense is another ALEC/NRA Big Lie to sell more guns. The vast majority of sensible Americans do NOT own guns, and have no need for them.

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Gun Threats and Self-Defense Gun Use (Original Post) billh58 May 2016 OP

amen from the choir jimmy the one May 2016 #1

Thanks Jimmy. n/t billh58 May 2016 #3

A telephone survey of teenagers? JonathanRackham May 2016 #2

Because they're only Harvard billh58 May 2016 #4

Probably grad students assigned to a PhD. JonathanRackham May 2016 #5

Don't you have a billh58 May 2016 #6

Not enough eggs for a Trump rally. JonathanRackham May 2016 #7

I doubt that I've made a bad billh58 May 2016 #8

jimmy the one

(2,717 posts)

1. amen from the choir

Reply to billh58 (Original post)

Mon May 16, 2016, 11:59 AM

May 2016

You're preaching to the choir bill!!!

(good post, & a belated welcome back)

billh58

(6,641 posts)

3. Thanks Jimmy. n/t

Reply to jimmy the one (Reply #1)

Mon May 16, 2016, 12:04 PM

May 2016

JonathanRackham

(1,604 posts)

2. A telephone survey of teenagers?

Reply to billh58 (Original post)

Mon May 16, 2016, 12:02 PM

May 2016

7. Adolescents are far more likely to be threatened with a gun than to use one in self-defense.

We analyzed data from a telephone survey of 5,800 California adolescents aged 12-17, which asked questions about gun threats against, and self-defense gun use by these young people. We found that these young people were far more likely to be threatened with a gun than to use a gun in self-defense, and most of the reported self-defense gun uses were hostile interactions between armed adolescents. Males, smokers, binge drinkers, those who threatened others and whose parents were less likely to know their whereabouts were more likely both to be threatened with a gun and to use a gun in self-defense.

Why didn't they contact them via Facebook?