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CA: Thinking of buying a gun for self-defense? Don’t do it
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Mark A. Taff
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During my more than 25 years as an emergency medicine physician, I treated hundreds of patients with gunshot wounds. I treated criminals who shot each other. I treated gun owners who killed their family members in drunken rages. I pronounced dead suicide victims who shot themselves with an easily accessible handgun in their home.
Yet in all those years of emergency medicine, I never treated a single patient who was shot by a law-abiding citizen in self-protection. Not one.
Multiple reputable studies and surveys bolster what I observed: Choosing to have a gun in your home, because it will keep you safe, is a myth. And a deadly one at that. |
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hisself
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You, sir, are a blithering idiot!
I have owned guns for self-defense for over 60 years. In that time I have never committed suicide or killed anyone in a drunken rage.
I have, however, successfully used my pistol to defend myself against a group of drunken, rowdy and threatening youths, without firing a shot. Had any of them not been intimidated enough to back off, you might have had them to treat.
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