Guns Prevent Thousands of Crimes Every Day, Research Show

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Guns Prevent Thousands of Crimes Every Day, Research Show

How many lives are actually saved by gun ownership?

Friday, August 23, 2019, Lawrence W. Reed

It never fails. A split-second after a mass shooting occurs, grandstanders and ideologues issue statements demanding new gun controls—even if the laws already on the books failed or the laws they want would have made no difference. Case in point: the tragic incidents in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, in early August 2019.

The message is clear: Guns cause violence. Tax them, take them, ban them, regulate them. Do something, maybe anything! Such knee-jerk, emotional responses are dangerous, writes Charles W. Cooke in National Review, “for when a nation sets up a direct pipeline between its emotions and its laws, it does not keep its liberty for long.”

Guns Don't Kill People, They Save Them

Liberty isn’t the only thing likely to be lost when gun laws are passed to appease emotions over reason, evidence, logic, and rights. Lives will most assuredly be lost, too. Lots of them.

How many lives are actually saved by gun ownership? This is a supremely important question that the grandstanders and ideologues usually—and conveniently—ignore. It’s a matter that came immediately to my mind when I learned of an incident here in my own town of Newnan, Georgia, a few days ago. The headline in the Newnan Times-Herald read, “Man Hospitalized After Being Shot Outside Bar.”

A little after 1:00 a.m. on Saturday morning, August 17, police arrived at Fat Boys Bar & Grill to respond to a shooting. A customer had threatened other patrons, prompting the establishment’s security to forcibly remove him. Enraged at being kicked out, he declared he was going to get a gun “and shoot the place up.”

This very angry (and possibly intoxicated) man then busted the window out of a friend’s car in the parking lot, grabbed a .40 caliber handgun from inside the car, and began firing in the air. In the meantime, Ben McCoy, a man who witnessed all of this from inside his own vehicle, happened to have his rifle with him. Before he could use it, he was shot four times by the man wielding the .40 caliber handgun, who then fled into the woods.

Fortunately, despite being hit in the chest, stomach, left arm and right thigh, McCoy is recuperating, and the assailant was quickly apprehended. No one was killed, but the situation would likely have been tragically different if Ben McCoy and his rifle hadn’t distracted the gunman.

Gun Effectiveness

I checked online and found some fascinating numbers. A good website with footnotes and references to authoritative sources is GunFacts.info. There I learned the following:

Guns prevent an estimated 2.5 million crimes a year, or 6,849 every day. Most often, the gun is never fired, and no blood (including the criminal’s) is shed.
Every year, 400,000 life-threatening violent crimes are prevented using firearms.
60 percent of convicted felons admitted that they avoided committing crimes when they knew the victim was armed. Forty percent of convicted felons admitted that they avoided committing crimes when they thought the victim might be armed.
Felons report that they avoid entering houses where people are at home because they fear being shot.
Fewer than 1 percent of firearms are used in the commission of a crime.
If you doubt the objectivity of the site above, it’s worth pointing out that the Center for Disease Control, in a report ordered by President Obama in 2012 following the Sandy Hook Massacre, estimated that the number of crimes prevented by guns could be even higher—as many as 3 million annually, or some 8,200 every day...

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[Bigun]

@Cyber Liberty @Smokin Joe @Jazzhead @roamer_1 @verga @Sanguine @txradioguy @EdJames

File this one under news you will never see on TEE BEE or in your local rag.

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@Cyber Liberty @Smokin Joe @Jazzhead @roamer_1 @verga @Sanguine @txradioguy @EdJames

File this one under news you will never see on TEE BEE or in your local rag.

That's RIGHT!
 

[Cyber Liberty]

 

[txradioguy]

@Cyber Liberty @Smokin Joe @Jazzhead @roamer_1 @verga @Sanguine @txradioguy @EdJames

File this one under news you will never see on TEE BEE or in your local rag.

That's because it destroy's the lefts narrative that guns are only used for one thing.  Killing.

The left believes the stories about people being saved by firearms and defensive firearms shootings are a myth.

And if anyone tries to show them they're wrong the gun grabbers just stick their fingers in their ears and go "lalalalalalala"

[Bigun]

That's because it destroy's the lefts narrative that guns are only used for one thing.  Killing.

The left believes the stories about people being saved by firearms and defensive firearms shootings are a myth.

And if anyone tries to show them they're wrong the gun grabbers just stick their fingers in their ears and go "lalalalalalala"

That is true @txradioguy but it's only a minor part of the overall reason which is: "They cannot take us where they want to take us for so long as we remain armed."

[roamer_1]

That's because it destroy's the lefts narrative that guns are only used for one thing.  Killing.

Even if that is accepted as true - One runs into the question of whether sometimes killing can be beneficial. And often times, it is, and must be.

Our society attempts to force that question into the abstract, which is in itself a direct falsity.
In the real and visceral sense, you would be hungry without killing as it interacts with sustenance.
And many, many more would be suffering or mourning without killing as it interacts with defense.

The very same thing that allows folks to think that hamburger comes from a Styrofoam tray is the thing that allows folks to believe that police keep them safe.

I cannot name that thing directly, but real evidence plainly shows it to be a delusion.

[verga]

@Bigun Thank you, I will give this a through read later.