On 7/18/2011 6:12 PM, Doug Freyburger wrote:
> blake murphy wrote:
>> Pete C. wrote:
>>
>>> Armed law
>>> abiding citizens have however successfully defended themselves against
>>> criminals many millions of times.
>>
>> bullshit. i would like to see a cite for 'many millions of times.'
>
> There are reporting services that search for such reports, such as the
> magazines from the NRA. Of course their editorials and other articles
> are biased and sometimes not verifiable but their incident reports are
> carefully verifed. They need to be because plenty of people would be
> quick to condemn them for false reporting.
>
> They report multiple incidents per month. The vast majority of reported
> incidents are preventive. The law abiding citizen shows the weapon and
> the criminal flees.
>
> Millions of times is an exaggeration. Per year country wide in the US
> would be in the hundreds using reported events, with a reasonable guess
> of thousands of unreported events.
>
> Use of a gun by a law abiding citizen is very rare. Most who own them
> never use them except in practice. Most who carry them never even show
> them. Never in their entire lives. Which is of course what gun
> ownership is supposed to be like. Preventive and rare. But if you ever
> do need it there's a high chance of dying without it.

Exactly, you would never know I carry. I believe I can say that for
everyone else I know who carries. It is a quite different picture that
the usual anti gun hysterical view that everyone is waving their guns
around just looking for an excuse to use them.