"Joseph Meehan" wrote in
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"Jim Yanik" wrote in message
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Meehan overlooks the fact that guns in civilian hands are used far
more for
GOOD than evil,in the US.
Note that the media rarely reports on the good DGUs,in fact makes
effort to
NOT report them(by omission). There are many more that go unreported.


Meehan can go to the NRA website,and read The Armed Citizen
column,where they have 10-12 reports every month gleaned from
newspapers all around the US telling of legit DGUs by civilians.And
they provide the paper's name and
date the article ran.


(DGU= defensive gun use)


http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/...S/GUNSTAT.html
In the U.S. for 2001, there were 29,573 deaths from firearms,
distributed as follows by mode of death: Suicide 16,869; Homicide
11,348; Accident 802; Legal Intervention 323; Undetermined 231.(CDC,
2004)

OK,now compare that to over 2 MILLION legit DGUs in the US each year.
DGUs/legal gun ownership wins overwhelmingly.

BTW,DGUs include instances where the gun is simply displayed and the crook
flees,without any shot being fired.Of course,there is no requirement that
these cases be reported,and people may choose not to report them,to avoid
"red tape" or even being treated as a criminal themselves.
They still are legit DGUs.


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Jim Yanik
jyanik
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