tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545676689750042390.post323207971568362685..comments2023-10-14T08:00:54.506-07:00Comments on Creekside Chat: Putting Gun Violence into Proper PerspectiveSoquel by the Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13982496379450866613noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545676689750042390.post-45083188802403561102014-02-17T07:56:55.437-08:002014-02-17T07:56:55.437-08:00Of course it is a verifiable statistic. Every hand...Of course it is a verifiable statistic. Every handgun used in the commission of a crime can be divided into those legally owned by the criminal and those not legally owned by the criminal. This will give you the rate of illegally-owned handgun use in the commission of a crime versus the opposite.<br /><br />The rate of crime committed by people using their legally-obtained firearms is infinitesimally small compared to the rate of crime committed by people with illegally-obtained firearms.<br /><br />And we have not yet scratched the self-defense portion of the data.<br /><br />The shooting deaths of perpetrators committing, or attempting to commit, a crime against a legal-gun owner are either viewed as justifiable or non-justifiable. The number of deaths resulting from justifiable acts of self-defense by legal gun owners far outweigh the number of deaths deemed nonjustifiable homicide or manslaughter.<br /><br />The problem is that the true incidence of justifiable acts of self-defense cannot be known because they are not recorded by police departments responding to a shooting incident. Zimmerman was not arrested for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin precisely because there was no evidence to dispute the eyewitness reports, along with the evidence collected at the scene, that this incident was not a justifiable act of self-defense.<br /><br />Self-defense is not a crime. Every living citizen has a duty to protect their own life. Contrary to liberal assertions, the police have no duty to protect anyone's life other than their own.Dr-RJPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11483183372880260477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545676689750042390.post-65284322332494965962013-03-11T15:41:24.327-07:002013-03-11T15:41:24.327-07:00Inconvenient fact: That's not actually a veri...Inconvenient fact: That's not actually a verifiable statistic.Crissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13389565751169783614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545676689750042390.post-31191859647387020052012-12-20T16:05:29.478-08:002012-12-20T16:05:29.478-08:00Inconvenient Fact: Legally-Owned Guns 25 Times Mor...Inconvenient Fact: Legally-Owned Guns 25 Times More Likely to be Used in Self Defense Than to Commit a Crime<br /><br />http://cognitionemission.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/inconvenient-fact-legally-owned-guns-25-times-more-likely-to-be-used-in-self-defense-than-to-commit-a-crime/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com