Gun Control & RKBA

Straw Man

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20. Wrong.

Mon Feb 29, 2016, 02:15 AM

Feb 2016

Add 'em all up nutters, and far more people are injured in GunFail pratfalls than criminals are stopped by righteous civilians with Big Pieces.

Nope. Sorry.

The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) has estimated that there are between 60,000 and 105,000 DGUs per year. Between the years 1992 and 1994, the NCVS reported there were in total 116,000 DGUs.

-- http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/9/17/1238623/-Defensive-Gun-Use-The-CDC-Report-on-Gun-Violence

Compare the DOJ's figure above with 16,864 non-fatal gun injuries in 2013. (Start here -- http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/nfirates2001.html -- and select filters UNINTENTIONAL >> FIREARM >> 2013.)

"Far more"? No. Not even "more". Fewer, actually: far fewer.

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