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To: bentway who wrote (747923)	10/18/2013 9:16:57 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1572171

You can go to the site and read the footnotes. Bentway: Yet another reader who has me on ignore. Those folks who put me on ignore may be my most avid readers.

To: bentway who wrote (747923)	10/19/2013 11:50:36 AM
From: combjelly	1 Recommendation Recommended By J_F_Shepard Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572171

When they don't shoot themselves or others? It's not really clear how that's arrived at. Given that it uses that 2.5 million figure, it is probably made up. That study was done 20 years ago when crime was much higher. And it is shot through with methodology errors. Plus, it doesn't pass the smell test. If a percent or so of the population used a gun to fight off a bad guy every year, in not too long of a time you'd know someone this has happened to. I don't, do you? Besides, what happened at the Naval Yard is much more likely. A bad guy with a gun meets a good guy with a gun. Net result is a bad guy with two guns...