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PostPosted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 8:43 pm 
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Bottom Line about guns:

Outlawing the private ownership of guns will increase gun crime. Nearly 100% of guns used in criminal activities were acquired illegally. These criminals will be able to operate without fear of a person defending him/herself. Outlawing lawful ownership of hand guns hurts the honest law abiding citizen.

Cities in which conceal and carry permits are easier to obtain have lower percentages of gun violence. Look it up.

Extracted from Larry Elder article:
Criminologist and researcher Gary Kleck, using his own commissioned phone surveys and number extrapolation, estimates that 2.5 million Americans use guns for defensive purposes each year. He further found that of those who had used guns defensively, one in six believed someone would have been dead if they had not resorted to their defensive use of firearms. That corresponds to approximately 400,000 of Kleck's estimated 2.5 million defensive gun uses. Kleck points out that if only one-tenth of the people were right about saving a life, the number of people saved annually by guns would still be at least 40,000

Former assistant district attorney and firearms expert David Kopel writes, "... [W]hen a robbery victim does not defend himself, the robber succeeds 88 percent of the time, and the victim is injured 25 percent of the time. When a victim resists with a gun, the robbery success rate falls to 30 percent, and the victim injury rate falls to 17 percent. No other response to a robbery – from drawing a knife to shouting for help to fleeing – produces such low rates of victim injury and robbery success."

I realize it's hard for a liberal to view a subject objectively. Liberals grow up in a lilly white world where guns and manual labor are "icky." Please try and present facts when making an argument, not emotionally charged rhetoric. Oh wait, you can’t. The facts don’t support your position.

A fact to a liberal is like garlic to a vampire.

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