Topic: Obama orders CDC gun violence study, study shreds his positi | |
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First and foremost, the majority of annual gun-related deaths are due to suicide. While this is still a depressing statistic, it supports gun-rights advocates’ claims that the country has a mental health problem, not a gun owner problem. In fact, the study found that those who own guns, carry them, and fight back against criminals are actually fare better in dangerous situations. The report notes that virtually all studies which “assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns” found the same thing. There are “consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies.” http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/56191 |
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First and foremost, the majority of annual gun-related deaths are due to suicide. While this is still a depressing statistic, it supports gun-rights advocates’ claims that the country has a mental health problem, not a gun owner problem. In fact, the study found that those who own guns, carry them, and fight back against criminals are actually fare better in dangerous situations. The report notes that virtually all studies which “assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns” found the same thing. There are “consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies.” http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/56191 ![]() |
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It will make as much difference to him as Judas Bush awarding the Freedom Medal to Hillary does to us! ![]() |
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