But what is notably absent is actual, unbiased, confirmation of these supposed defensive gun uses. At rate they claim, gun owners would prevent a crime every 10 seconds or so. That means daily, in the US, there would be ~8,200 DGUs. They can actually prove *10 in one month*.
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The methodology that generates that number is subject to so many biases, that when an absurd number like 3 million is generated, you shouldn't rush to report that, you should instead re-evaluate the methodology and see if you can do better.
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But, they're ideological morons, so once they got a number they liked, they never let it go, in spite of all the contrary evidence that defensive gun use is extraordinarily rare compared to offensive gun use - the thing that keeps killing us because there are too many guns.
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We should make policy based on hard data. At 10/mo, the observed rate is about 1/25,000th of what this bogus estimate suggests. It's not just slightly wrong, it's a complete absurdity. Compare that to how many die from guns a month - over 3,000.
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So, for a fantasy - a completely absurd estimate that is never validated *in the real world* - the NRA insists we suffer 3000 deaths a month, about 2-3 times as many injuries, and uncounted threats and assaults. To protect their fantasy, we must experience real-life terror.
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Receipts - defensive gun uses are misremembered offensive uses.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12183892_Gun_use_in_the_United_States_results_from_two_national_surveys …
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Several of the instances in the article describe unnecessary escalation. They also don’t mention how many gun owners blew their own brains out with their “self-defense” weapon, which is a far larger number than self-defense uses.
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Absolutely. The data subsequent to the absurd survey result the NRA won't let die, suggests many of these defensive uses are actually biased recollections of offensive uses.
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Oh, I know. It's a patent absurdity, and prima facie absurd. But they won't let it go. We die for a fantasy.
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