Indeed, the CDC study, which the federal agency conducted from 1996 to 1998, found there are 2.46 million defensive gun uses in the U.S. each year.... "[The]CDC's results, then, imply that guns were used defensively by victims about 3.6 times as often as they were used offensively by criminals," [Klek] writes.
In order to instate totalitarian control, certain incidents must be cooked up or activated in order to get Americans to surrender their ability to resistance. We cannot have the cattle and livestock killing the farmers whenever slaughter time is here.
ReplyDeleteThat ain't the slaughter we paid for it said the Deep State.
They already have the allegiance of about half the country, in the form of Demoncrat propaganda mind control. The rest is not far away.
Whether it is false flags, school shootings, a Reichstag fire or two, does not matter. They will never give up their dream of a New World Order. Your US 1 dollar bill, Novus Ordo Seculorum.
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So, that makes it a desperate necessity to take everyone's guns away--we have to disarm those 680,000 offensive gun users. They'll comply. Right?
ReplyDeleteSeparately, I suspect the ratio is lower than reported. I couldn't find a definition of "offensive" gun use Kleck's article (cited in the OP cite), but there are quite a number of offensive uses of guns as a matter of defense and in other legitimate matters.
Eric Hines
I doubt all the shootings in Chicago or Baltimore, for example, count as inoffensive gun use. At least not to those taking incoming fire. One wonders if it is "cases investigated and closed by the police," like murder statistics where the death is only listed as murder if someone is tried and convicted of the act.
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the ratio is lower than reported
ReplyDeleteI'm sloppy with my 3rd grade arithmetic. That should have been "useful ratio higher than reported" from either discounting offensive use done legitimately or counting offensive gun use done in active defense as defensive use.
Eric Hines
The link provides a link for Kleck's paper at "What Do CDC’s Surveys Say About the Frequency of Defensive Gun Uses?" . Unfortunately, it provides an incorrect SSRN-id: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3124326.
ReplyDeletePutting the title of the paper into a search engine, one comes up with the proper SSRN-id. What Do CDC's Surveys Say About the Frequency of Defensive Gun Uses? https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3194685.