RE: Guns Kill People… Or is it People?

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Guns Kill People… Or is it People?

in writing •  7 years ago 

Did you know that guns are used between 500,000 and 3 million times a year by people DEFENDING themselves? That according to one study there are estimate of 162,000 cases per year where someone “almost certainly would have been killed” if they “had not used a gun for protection.” How many of those saved are children? Why does are people only looking at one side of the numbers? Guns are NOT just for “killing”, guns are used for sport, hunting and of course for SAVING LIVES via self defense. If you have something that is used 80X more often for GOOD than bad, and removing that leads to the creation of MANY more victims, why would you want that? Is the goal to simply remove something that makes you uncomfortable at the expense of the safety of 500,000 to 3 million people a year? Why aren’t people talking about that? https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulhsieh/2018/03/20/any-study-of-gun-violence-should-include-how-guns-save-lives/2/#536a9b2f62d9

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