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Gun owners not likely to use firearms for self-defense, study claims
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A new study attempts to debunk the claim that gun owners rely on their firearms for self-defense.
The left-leaning Violence Policy Center released a study Wednesday that finds people are much more likely to use a gun to kill someone without cause than to protect themselves.
According to the study, gun owners committed 259 justifiable homicides compared to 8,342 criminal homicides in 2012, the most recent year data was available.
That means gun owners are 32 times more likely to kill someone without cause than to act in self-defense, the study reasoned. |
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It's not like the Violence Policy Center doesn't have an agenda.
1. I don't believe the number of justifiable homicides.
2. Counting only justifiable homicides leaves out the tens of thousands of defensive gun uses where no one is killed.
3. This is a very ingenious comparison that doesn't mean anything.
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