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To: Wayners who wrote (774610)	3/13/2014 10:20:46 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (3) of 1572442

Without legal guns there would be 75,000 gun deaths per year because then there is no way for people to defends their homes and you would see home invasions and burglaries skyrocket. Absolutely! Look what happened in Britain and Australia when they put severe restrictions on guns! Oh, wait... You know, we don't live in a Mad Max-like dystopia. Crime, especially violent crime is at its lowest level in decades. Violence during a burglary is a small percentage. Violence that results is death is vanishingly small. bjs.gov To the point that it isn't even mentioned in this report. Most of those types of burglaries are done by intimates of the victim. Note that in 61% of the cases in that report, the burglars aren't even armed. And of those armed, only a fraction have a firearm. So on the face of it, your 43,000 more deaths is bogus. Without legal guns, the 32,000 deaths we currently have would be much smaller and the number of excess deaths due to home invasions and burglaries would be vanishingly small.

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