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The Cave: The social calculus of handguns
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"This past summer, in what history will remember as a watershed case, the US Supreme court ruled 5 to 4 in favor of individual gun ownership rights ..." ...
"Historically, government has outlawed certain firearms based on their high social cost. Now let us consider what that same utilitarian calculus has to say about handguns. The Department of Justice reports that handguns are the most frequently used firearms in homicide. Their report shows that in 2005, 14,965 murders involved firearms, 7,565 of them by handguns ..." ... -------
Submitter's Note: Now let's look at the lives saved by guns. If there are 1.5 million DGUs a year, and even 1% of them saved a life then as many lives were saved with guns as were taken. |
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