"In 2007-11, there were 235,700 victimizations where the victim used a firearm to threaten or attack an offender"
Rare event?
The survey also notes:
"In 2007-11, about 61% of nonfatal firearm violence was reported to the police, compared to 46% of nonfirearm violence (table 10). Among the nonfatal firearm victimizations that went unreported in 2007-11, the most common reasons victims gave for not reporting the crime was fear of reprisal (31%) and that the police could not or would not do anything to help (27%)."
Yah that's hundreds of thousands of people quite chuffed they didn't get fucked up by Salon pedos or cheeki offenders
Well you can add the plusses and minuses, but it all leads to the overall homicide statistics doesn't it? Yeah, more people defend themselves with a gun in the USA than other countries. But is that actually working to prevent people getting killed? Apparently not, since the USA's homicide rate is 5 times that of the UK. Sure, maybe the occasional person in the UK could have prevented their own death if guns were legal, but opening that can of worms would see you with a 5x murder rate on the overall.
Well no, if Switzerland's anything to go by. Heck, the USA had an always decreasing homicide rate
up until now. Police says this is after police withdrew from the USA in the Ferguson effect, fearing charges, leading to criminals feeling quite safe leading to more drugs and more organized crime and so more violence. Beeb suggests a blip is just a blip and you need more data to call it a trend. Amusingly there's this there too:
The New York City Police Department's historical main tactic for stopping people has significantly decreased after the way it was exercised was deemed unconstitutional.
"Inevitably, there was a trade off," said Mr Blumstein. "[Stop and Frisk] was certainly a deterrent effect to carrying a gun in the street."
When people are trying to kill each other they will find weapons, and disarming citizens when hundreds of thousands of them defend themselves and win in order to perhaps disarm people who are going out of their way to kill someone seems a bit iffy. You just end up with London where gangs rule their estates, people are scared to defend themselves outside their homes from worry of being prosecuted by their attacker and two weeks ago we had our first marksmen patrols and armed response vehicles to tackle a recent surge in gun crime. Oh and of course, cheeky rape gangs and gang rapists.
End of the day though, there's no doubt the UK has a lower homicide rate. Seems safer at least. Having 1 camera for every 10 people and 1 policeman for every 500 people (after cuts to the force) helps. A fifth of the world's CCTV cameras are positioned in the UK. Ha, you want to be like us? Liberties are worth dying for for a reason, as when you sacrifice too many living stops being worth it.
And crunching the numbers using the Bradycampaign (some antigun campaign, so I know the estimates will be as large as they can get them) on a yearly average in the USA in regards to usage of guns:
11,583 people are murdered.
584 people are killed accidentally.
252 die but intent is not known.
For a total of 12,419 people a year.
Dividing the criminal survey's number for reported cases of self-defence with a firearm that's 78,566 uses of self defence vs 12,419 deaths by homicide/accident/unknown intent with a firearm. Adding up the numbers disarming the 78,566 in an attempt to cut down the 12,419 just doesn't make sense.
Salon enjoys being contrarian. Rather like a large number of internet posters. Doesn't make them pedophiles although it doesn't make me a fan.
I would not call hiring and publishing pedophiles advocating pedophilia contrarian, irregardless of whether they're "non-contactual" with children
Being an edgy contrarian is like picking a side or opposing green vs fossil fuel energy based off of identity politics versus pragmatic policy, or even now supporting gun rights vs run control based off identity politics versus pragmatic policy. Supporting pedophilia because conservatives hate pedophiles is like supporting murder because conservatives hate murderers. You've really gone off the deep end by then
You may want to look at the suicide rates too. The suicide by firearm rate is double the homicide by firearm rate in the USA.
Give your people reasons to live, so they don't look for means to die.