Guns are the tool responsible for 30,000 annual deaths in the USA. Remove suicide (for obvious reasons - including how easy it is to kill ones self with almost any instrument) and they account for about 11,000. And thats with our very illegally-armed minority population. Those numbers are inflated by the crime in the inner-cities by criminals. Annually, however gun crime continues to go downward on it's own.
Now then despite this, Guns are calculated to save 500,000 lives annually in the USA - thats right 45.46x more than they take. And the worst part is nobody who touts gun control can name a solid law that would help.
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https://www.nap.edu/catalog/18319/p...educe-the-threat-of-firearm-related-violence)
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. ... 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"
Then this goober says "de australlian buyback made no more cats attack - WRONG Gun crime continued on it's downard spiral it was following before. In the UK gun crime spiked upward for a bit and now they have truck, nailbombings, stabbings, and acid attacks to compensate.
Please tell me more about how "common sense" gun control laws are.
--"MUH BUMP STOCKS!" shouts the peanut gallery. You realize a bump-stock is just an easy to create spring mechanism, riiiiiigh?
--"At least ban semi autos" Shouts the peanut gallery - Semi-autos are most pistols. It means pull trigger once, and it fires.
--"but muh AR-15" Is a small-game semi-auto hunting rifle with a smaller round than other hunting rifles. it looks scary, sure, but it's no worse than that shotgun hanging on your grand-pappy's wall. Also the "AR" is short for ARMA-LITE.
This analogy is trash