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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Now I can't quite put my finger on it, but something seems just a little "odd" when I read stuff like "more guns = less crime" and to back it up they say that 2 million people a year are fending off criminals with firearms.
If more guns = less crime, why are there so many criminals being fended off with guns? And if criminals are afraid of people with guns, how come people with guns are so often preyed upon by criminals? According to the study (and I suppose a calculator), a citizen fends off a criminal with a gun every 13 seconds in the United States. That's an awful lot of crimes being committed in a place with a lot of guns. What percentage of total crimes are foiled by guns? It can't be a very big number. Smaller than 10 I'll bet.
It's a goddamn crime wave down there. The guns don't seem to be stopping it.
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I certainly don't agree with the premise of his argument that more guns automatically equal less crime, but he went to extremes to prove that gun bans don't make any difference.
2 million incidents a year, out of 300 million people, and you somehow get an incident every 13 seconds? How come that doesn't sound right?