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Remember the protestor flattened by an IDF Bulldoz by DesertRat662006-11-19 12:55:59
  But of course, by veran2005-03-16 09:06:19
    Heckler&Koch by pseudonym2005-03-16 09:26:15
      In Kabul you can walk down the marketplace... by RetiQlum22005-03-16 09:35:50
        On man with a knife? by pseudonym2005-03-16 09:44:01
          Here's something for you to read by DesertRat662006-11-19 12:55:59
            Question for you by pseudonym2005-03-16 11:32:52
              Yes, but not "done." by z1root2005-03-16 13:12:26
                I am a 23 year old, 5'5", slightly overweight by Sweethart2005-03-16 13:22:10
                  Not an easy post.. by pseudonym2005-03-16 13:59:55
                    OMFG by DesertRat66 2005-03-16 14:29:03
right out of the Handgun Control Inc. propoganda book. That statistic has been so widely disproven it's not even worth digging up the numbers. I'm guessing it comes from the Kellerman study which Kellermann acknowledged did "not include cases in which burglars or intruders are wounded or frightened away by the use or display of a firearm." He also admitted his study did not look at situations in which intruders "purposely avoided a home known to be armed." This means Kellermann ignored the vast majority of situations in which legally armed citizens frightened away intruders simply by displaying a firearm. (Source: "Protected or Peril? An Analysis of Firearm-Related Deaths in the Home" by Arthur L. Kellermann and Donald T. Reay)

Furthermore; By carefully examining facts and statistics from the Department of Justice, the F.B.I. and other law enforcement agencies, Prof. Gary Kleck from the School of Criminology, Florida State University, discovered Americans use firearms to prevent crimes approximately 1 to 1.5 million times per year. These are the very cases Kellermann chose to ignore. Had Kellermann considered these facts, he would have had to conclude a firearm in the home makes a family safer.

Prof. Kleck also discovered that robbery victims who defended themselves with a gun suffered lower rates of injury than did those who resisted without a gun, or even those who did not resist at all and instead complied with the violent criminal's demands. In short, Prof. Kleck concluded the private ownership of firearms deters criminal behavior. (Source: "Crime Control Through the Private Use of Armed Force" by Gary Kleck)
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                      Then why doesn't NYC have a lower crime rate than by pseudonym2005-03-16 14:35:15
                        NYC has the most stringent gun laws in the country by JPaganel2005-03-16 14:46:18
                          Canadian handgun aquisition. by pseudonym2005-03-16 14:53:55
                            And just what do we have in New York? by JPaganel2005-03-16 15:03:06
                              Hope that enlightens you by pseudonym2005-03-16 15:33:43
                                NY state laws do not apply in NYC. by JPaganel2006-11-19 12:55:59
                                Please read the sections in the link by pseudonym2005-03-16 16:15:42
                                There are NO sections in your link by JPaganel2005-03-16 16:23:34
                                and again, a joke compaired to REAL gun control by pseudonym2005-03-16 16:17:07
                                Which is what it is in NYC. by JPaganel2005-03-16 16:26:48
                                In addition to which by JPaganel2005-03-16 16:55:28
                                that is because it isn't needed by pseudonym2005-03-16 17:14:58
                                How about the original point? by JPaganel2005-03-16 17:21:20
                                simple by Dailator2005-03-16 17:40:05
                                Federal law prohibits by JPaganel2005-03-16 17:44:10
                                how about enforcement? by pseudonym2005-03-16 17:53:44
                                Don't change the subject. by JPaganel2005-03-16 18:01:49
                                It does, because that control is country wide by pseudonym2005-03-16 18:50:06
                                I repeat. by JPaganel2005-03-16 19:32:22
                                and the crime rate is still FAR greater than say by pseudonym2005-03-16 20:50:53
                        repeat: population density. by plblark2005-03-16 15:28:45
                          I agree with plblark by Jaz2005-03-16 16:33:02
                            Then compare Vancover with Seatle by pseudonym2005-03-16 17:16:25
                              That hospital stat might not be a good by ManiacJoe2005-03-16 17:21:32
                                I belive it was a W5 report. by pseudonym2005-03-16 17:47:35

 

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