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Gun Control & RKBA

DonP

(6,185 posts)

2. Ummm, Not even close to right

Reply to Yallow (Reply #1)

Sat Sep 10, 2016, 12:53 AM

Sep 2016

What's insane are your shitty math skills.

On the low end the CDC estimates from 60,000 to 80,000 defensive gun uses every year, versus 9,000 murders. Not shootings, defensive gun uses.

On the high end other DOJ and FBI sources estimate it may be as high as 750,000.

But that's alright, you just don't know any better.

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"Investigators credit conceal-carry permit for saving man’s life" - Illinois [View all] DonP Sep 2016 OP

And For Every Person Who Carries That "Protects Themself" A Dozen Shoot Themselves Or Their Children Yallow Sep 2016 #1

Ummm, Not even close to right DonP Sep 2016 #2

"The odds are insane." pablo_marmol Sep 2016 #3

Only 229 BILLION With a B Yallow Sep 2016 #4

Given that the CDC has now conceded that defensive gun use........ pablo_marmol Sep 2016 #6

Since you are a gun owner sarisataka Sep 2016 #8

"229 billion so some folks can feel a little more secure, when exactly the opposite is true." beevul Sep 2016 #15

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Burp, fart, burp. pablo_marmol Sep 2016 #7

Do you know the real life Mother Jones from which the publication draws its name Nuclear Unicorn Sep 2016 #9

Link to your research on those numbers please Duckhunter935 Sep 2016 #11

Demonstably false, as others have already cited (nt) LongtimeAZDem Sep 2016 #13

Latest data on childhood (-15 yoa) deaths-by-gun reveals 65 - 95 A YEAR. Eleanors38 Sep 2016 #17

No surprise here....everyone knows guns are designed to save lives. ileus Sep 2016 #10

That's probably the only instance of this so far this year discntnt_irny_srcsm Sep 2016 #12

It's not even the first instance this week LongtimeAZDem Sep 2016 #14

I remember this guy who said... discntnt_irny_srcsm Sep 2016 #16

first request for 'resident experts' testimony jimmy the one Sep 2016 #18