Re:China Is Not Russia. Taiwan Is Not Ukraine
by _hypx on Saturday March 05, 2022 @06:54PM
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I get the feeling you have that problem in reverse. All defensive gun use is very rare. Certainly, rarer than the opposite (offensive gun use). Combined with suicide risk and accidental deaths or injuries, it is rarely justifiable. Study on this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2848468/
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Re:China Is Not Russia. Taiwan Is Not Ukraine
by daenz on Saturday March 05, 2022 @06:59PM
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The CDC reports 60,000 to 2.5M instances of defensive gun use per year[0]
0. https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/firearms/fastfact.htm....
Re:China Is Not Russia. Taiwan Is Not Ukraine
by _hypx on Saturday March 05, 2022 @07:32PM
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The numbers regarding defensive gun use is very likely to end up being a classic example of commercial interests affect scientific research. Nearly all of the high numbers come from a handful of sources that have connections with the firearm industry. There are many methodology problems with their numbers too.
In the relatively small amount of research on this subject that is not influenced by commercial interests, the numbers suggest that defensive gun use is very rare: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00917...