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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
...It seems like the majority of people killed by guns are innocents, but maybe the perception isn't reality... I honestly don't know. I realize that this stats could be skewed by gang violence where innocence is relative on any given day (ie. a person may have been minding their own business the day they were killed, but had done something aggressive in the past to provoke the incident).
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I expect that the numbers are not as one-sided as you surmise, given that there are huge number of gun incidents involving the police that never generate the same kind of media attention, and which we subsequently never hear about.
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
For every "bad" guy killed by police or in self-defense, how many innocent people have to be killed by guns to make it a fair trade off?
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Maybe it was just a poor choice of words, but a "fair trade off"?!