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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (774506)3/12/2014 5:03:16 PM
From: one_less   of 1576155
 
That is a good question. It raises some other questions.

"...without guns , how many would there be?"

1) I hear anecdotal reports from every gun owner about incidences where carrying a gun drove off a would be attacker. So I reckon to answer your question we'd have to get some solid data on that kind of stuff.

2) How many of those deaths would occur anyway, via another method.

3) Some portion of those deaths are labeled justifiable homicide, meaning that the dead person may have been a brutal miscreant bent on doing harm to others. That data is available.

4) Number of deaths in 2010: 2,468,435

5) Everybody dies.

6) The number of decent people who can claim a life well lived is a far more interesting standard, than how many have died on a path of miserable licentious struggle of survival.

7) I wonder how many of those 32,000 were decent people just minding their own business. I'm guessing a small fraction.
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