10 Stories That Prove Guns Save Lives

most of those gun deaths were suicides,and those don't count,suicides are means-independent and voluntary acts upon one's self. Next,many of those homicides are criminal-on-criminal shootings.
Almost all of them are done by people already prohibited from possessing a gun or even a single round of ammo. OTOH,people who have concealed carry permits are the SAFEST and most law-abiding of citizens. THEY are not the ones doing those shooting and killings.
Don't disarm the good guys because of what a few criminals do.

There are 2.5 MILLION legal defenses with gun a year. That's about a thousand a day. You'd trade all those victories against the goblins for MAYBE "one life save"? You are a glittering jewel of politically correct ignorance.

Ray from Bloombergia
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I use the acronym DGU for defensive gun use.

I miscalculated. The real number is over 5,300 DGUs a DAY. That a-whole would trade a few putative lives saved for a confirmed reduction of more than 5k violent crimes a DAY.

Ray from Bloombergia

The average amount of deaths due to accidental shooting annually is around 600. Contrast that with; Texting while Driving which is 6,000 or other motor vehicle incidents around 35,000..
Accidental drowning is 3,500.
Again falls kill around 25,000 & none of these begin to look at medical causes. I mean seriously you need to get some perspective.

Then we can also look at intentional murders...
From FBI statistics for 2011:
Number of murders by rifles (that would include all 'assault weapons'): 323
Number of murders by knives: 1694
Number of murders by hammers: 496
Number of murders by hands & feet: 728
So is it time for hands & feet control? Perhaps designating assault hammers? Really you liberals have issues in getting priorities laid out right which is why no matter what you seem to do, you never actually improve things in the world.

Here's some fun facts for you to ingest.
Firearm misuse causes only a small number of accidental deaths in the U.S.189 For example, compared to being accidentally killed by a firearm, you are:
• Five times more likely to burn to death
• Five times more likely to drown
• 17 times more likely to be poisoned
• 17 times more likely to fall
• And 68 times more likely to die in an automobile accident

Fact: In 2007, there were only 54 accidental gun deaths for children under age 13. About 12 times as many children died from drowning during the same period.190
Fact: In 2007, there were 999 drowning victims and 137 firearm-related accidental deaths from ages 1-19. Firearms outnumber pools by a factor of over 30:1. Thus, the risk of drowning in a pool is nearly 100 times higher than from a firearm-related accident for everyone, and nearly 500 times for children ages 0-5.191

Fact: Medical mistakes kill 400,000 people per year – the equivalent of almost three fully loaded Boeing 747 jet crashes per day – or about 286 times the rate of all accidental firearm deaths.192 This translates into 1 in 6 doctors causing an accidental death, and 1 in 56,666 gun owners doing the same.
U.S. Accidental Fiream Deaths
Fact: Only 2% of gun deaths are from accidents, and some insurance investigations indicate that many of these may not be accidents after all.193
Fact: Around 2,000 patients each year – six per day – are accidentally killed or injured in hospitals by registered nurses.

You left out murders using handguns, which are the most common weapons used in homicides. Funny that you'd do that. Wouldn't be because your argument doesn't hold water, would it? Knives, hammers, cars, airplanes, concrete blocks and countless other objects can be (and are) used in murders, but these objects have other uses that justify their existence. Besides, when it's feasible, they're modified or restricted in order to reduce their use in crimes. Only guns, which are designed specifically to kill, seem to be exempt. That's nuts.

You left out the fact that 3/4 of all 'victims' had prior criminal records. Handgun violence is mostly criminal on criminal, but that doesn't advance your narrative.

You left out the fact that 3/4 of all 'victims' had prior criminal records. Handgun violence is mostly criminal on criminal, but that doesn't advance your narrative.

They're not a drop in any bucket to those people who saved their own life or someone else's life. It's just flat amazing how stupid you prog libtards can be.

Oh, yeah? So, where's the evidence for your assertion, bright boy? Not in the news, that's for sure. Nor do police reports or FBI crime statistics support your claim. How come we hardly ever hear of such events until this kind of debate occurs and then you gun nuts pull some ridiculous number out of your backsides without the slightest proof? You believe it, because you want to believe it.

The cases do not advance the pre-written media narrative and are spiked.

You are a moron.

Ray from Bloomergia

Unlike the libtards who cherry pick the only stats that support them, John Lott ran ALL the stats and police reports from all 3,054 counties in the U.S. for TWENTY YEARS. That's where the numbers come from you cretin. Plug the buds back in, light up the bong in Mommie's basement and listen to more Coldplay.

Ray

Because the FBI doesn't keep statistics on how many times guns are used in self defense. It makes the argument one sided from the start, as they are crime stats. If you dig deeper, you will find that hundreds of the 11,000 homicides are justified, acts of self defense, by citizens and law enforcement. Those are just the times when the gun was AND the perp was killed. They don't give stats for perps that lived, whether or not the gun was fired!

Because the FBI doesn't keep statistics on how many times guns are used in self defense. It makes the argument one sided from the start, as they are crime stats. If you dig deeper, you will find that hundreds of the 11,000 homicides are justified, acts of self defense, by citizens and law enforcement. Those are just the times when the gun was AND the perp was killed. They don't give stats for perps that lived, whether or not the gun was fired!

2 million crimes prevented.

30,000 unlawful deaths.

Know how many people our cars kill per year, cupcake?

The numbers are based on surveys of population conducted in 1993 and 1994 by the Centers for Disease Control. The results were confirmed by a 2000 study in the "Quantitative Journal of Criminology" (Vol 17). The results of these findings were then expanded to the total expected for the entire US population. This is not an unusual technique in statistics. Even if we reduce these results by a factor of 5 to account for conservancy and then say that only 50% of those were an actual prevented death the pro-defense side still comes out ahead by a factor of roughly 20 to 1 based on 2010 data (~11,000 homicides).

Note that the above response did not resort to ad hominem attacks, cited references that can be checked and did not cast any aspersions on the original poster.

So, what is Your solution to all those ' gun deaths ' ?