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Re:America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Eng... by sDlEzAtyoNAz on Friday May 03, 2019 @12:25PM (#19819763)
And the better chances that one will be used intentionally to protect a productive and decent member of society from a violent criminal.
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Re:America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Eng... by fjsolwmv on Friday May 03, 2019 @08:52PM (#19823545)
That's certainly the fantasy.
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Re:America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Eng... by dfrage on Friday May 03, 2019 @10:12PM (#19823885)
It is undisputed that there are a great many legitimate "defensive gun uses" per year.

How many is of great dispute, getting into minutiae all the way down to survey question branching due to an unbridgeable cultural gap, but please don't deny even the lowest estimates of tens of thousands.

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Re:America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Eng... by captainredbeard on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @11:48AM (#19910629)
The numbers are on the side of gun owners and advocates. I'd be inclined to think that competing theories based on feelings would be more fantastical... even if the surveys are off by two orders of magnitude, the defensive uses outweigh mass shooting deaths.
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Re:America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Eng... by sDlEzAtyoNAz on Friday May 03, 2019 @10:01PM (#19823832)
You say fantasy, surveys say thing that happens hundreds of thousands of times per year in the US. I think I'll believe the surveys on this matter.
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