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Though statistics prove time and again that disarming a free people leads to more violent crime and the potential for mass government democide, it hasn’t stopped President Barrack Obama and his Congressional entourage from doing everything in their power to make it more difficult for Americans to legally own firearms.

Citing the Sandy Hook mass shooting last year, democrats on the hill have claimed that we must restrict gun ownership and strip the Second Amendment for the safety of our children and the general public.

But a new report commissioned by the White House titled Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-related Violence suggests what many self defense gun proponents have been saying for years. The report, ordered under one of President Obama’s 23 Executive Orders signed in the wake of the Sandy Hook incident, asked the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the National Research Council and other federal agencies to identify the “most pressing problems in firearms violence.”

To the surprise of the authors and those who would no doubt have used the report to further restrict access to personal defense firearms, the study found that gun ownership actually saves lives and those who have a firearm at their disposal improve their chances of survival and reduce their chance of injury in the event they are confronted by a violent criminal:


Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million per year…

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The estimate of 3 million defensive uses per year is based on an extrapolation from a small number of responses taken from more than 19 national surveys. The former estimate of 108,000 is difficult to interpret because respondents were not asked specifically about defensive gun use.

A different issue is whether defensive use of guns, however numerous or rare they may be, are effective in preventing injury to the gun wielding crime victim. Studies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns (i.e., incidents in which a gun was “used” by the crime victim in the sense of attacking or threatening an offender) have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self protective strategies.

Full Study available at the National Academy of Sciences

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In 2010, more than 105,000 people were injured or killed in the United States as
the result of a firearm-related incident. Recent, highly publicized, tragic mass shootings
in Newtown, CT; Aurora, CO; Oak Creek, WI; and Tucson, AZ, have sharpened the
American public's interest in protecting our children and communities from the harmful
effects of firearm violence. While many Americans legally use firearms for a variety of
activities, fatal and nonfatal firearm violence poses a serious threat to public safety and
welfare.

In January 2013, President Barack Obama issued 23 executive orders directing federal
agencies to improve knowledge of the causes

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio joined the gun control advocacy group co-founded by his predecessor
Michael Bloomberg, Mayors Against Illegal Guns announced Thursday.

“As a New Yorker it is particularly meaningful to me that Mayor de Blasio is joining our effort to curb gun
violence," Bloomberg said in a press release. "As Mayor he understands that common sense gun laws are
vital to that success – but gun violence is a national problem that must be addressed by our leaders in
Washington. Mayor de Blasio and the other new mayors who join our coalition strengthen our efforts to
end the bloodshed. I look forward to working with him to change our nation's laws so we can get illegal
guns off our streets."

... you know, a FEMA hating,  white supremacist, methamphetamine using, drug dealin' felon!  

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A white supremacist methamphetamine user with a criminal record was found guilty this
week after amassing a cache of assault rifles following last year’s massacre at Sandy Hook
Elementary School in Connecticut.

Seattlepi.com reported on Thursday that prosecutors are asking that John Christian Parks spending
at least a decade in prison after they succeed against him in a jury trial.

Parks had been caught with several other men by U.S. Forest Service police in Washington’s Mount
Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest while he was shooting assault rifles at explosive targets and smoking
meth last March. Officers seized four assault rifles at the time.

In 2004, Parks had been convicted of drug charges, but not before he temporarily escaped from
the King County Jail. As a convicted felon, he was not allowed to possess any type of firearm.

But days after officers seized the weapons in March, Parks contacted Forest Service police
demanding that they return “our guns.” He later sent an email from federal detention telling
a white supremacist minister that the seizure had been an “illegal gun grab.”

Parks insistence got the attention of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives,
which launched an investigation and searched his home in Belfair. Evidence gathered at the
home showed how Parks had purchased at least three of the AR-15 assault rifles over the
Internet. They also found body armor, a revolver and manuals for the assault rifles.

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Henry...
You can fool all of the people some of the time...
and you can fool some of the people all of the time...
but this lame excuse for FACTS and SOURCES is a joke, and fooled no one.

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A. Guns save more lives than they take; prevent more injuries than they inflict

* Guns used 2.5 million times a year in self-defense. Law-abiding citizens use guns to defend themselves against criminals as many as 2.5 million times every year -- or about 6,850 times a day. [1] This means that each year, firearms are used more than 80 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives. [2]

* Of the 2.5 million times citizens use their guns to defend themselves every year, the overwhelming majority merely brandish their gun or fire a warning shot to scare off their attackers. Less than 8% of the time, a citizen will kill or wound his/her attacker.[3]

* As many as 200,000 women use a gun every year to defend themselves against sexual abuse.[4]

* Even anti-gun Clinton researchers concede that guns are used 1.5 million times annually for self-defense. According to the Clinton Justice Department, there are as many as 1.5 million cases of self-defense every year. The National Institute of Justice published this figure in 1997 as part of "Guns in America" -- a study which was authored by noted anti-gun criminologists Philip Cook and Jens Ludwig.[5]

* Armed citizens kill more crooks than do the police. Citizens shoot and kill at least twice as many criminals as police do every year (1,527 to 606).[6] And readers of Newsweek learned that "only 2 percent of civilian shootings involved an innocent person mistakenly identified as a criminal. The 'error rate' for the police, however, was 11 percent, more than five times as high."[7]

* Handguns are the weapon of choice for self-defense. Citizens use handguns to protect themselves over 1.9 million times a year. [8] Many of these self-defense handguns could be labeled as "Saturday Night Specials."

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1st you got the source wrong, 2nd you didn't deny anything that was posted except spin it to Joe the Plumber which had zero to do with the story, a classic liberal tactic only other libtards fall for.
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A. Guns save more lives than they take; prevent more injuries than they inflict

* Guns used 2.5 million times a year in self-defense. Law-abiding citizens use guns to defend themselves against criminals as many as 2.5 million times every year -- or about 6,850 times a day. [1] This means that each year, firearms are used more than 80 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives. [2]

* Of the 2.5 million times citizens use their guns to defend themselves every year, the overwhelming majority merely brandish their gun or fire a warning shot to scare off their attackers. Less than 8% of the time, a citizen will kill or wound his/her attacker.[3]

* As many as 200,000 women use a gun every year to defend themselves against sexual abuse.[4]

* Even anti-gun Clinton researchers concede that guns are used 1.5 million times annually for self-defense. According to the Clinton Justice Department, there are as many as 1.5 million cases of self-defense every year. The National Institute of Justice published this figure in 1997 as part of "Guns in America" -- a study which was authored by noted anti-gun criminologists Philip Cook and Jens Ludwig.[5]

* Armed citizens kill more crooks than do the police. Citizens shoot and kill at least twice as many criminals as police do every year (1,527 to 606).[6] And readers of Newsweek learned that "only 2 percent of civilian shootings involved an innocent person mistakenly identified as a criminal. The 'error rate' for the police, however, was 11 percent, more than five times as high."[7]

* Handguns are the weapon of choice for self-defense. Citizens use handguns to protect themselves over 1.9 million times a year. [8] Many of these self-defense handguns could be labeled as "Saturday Night Specials."

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Yes I read it the first time... but you still haven't given me the source of this text?

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Discussed in this Brief: Results of a nationally representative telephone
survey (1994) on private ownership and use of firearms by American adults.

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We found that 20 percent of all gun owning households had an unlocked,
loaded gun in the home at the time of the survey.
Among handgun-owning households than among households
that number was 30%.
No wonder so many kids are getting killed with guns... Guns readily available and loaded!

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Gun Safety is just as bad now as it was back in the early 90's!  Check this out from your link:
Gun storage.
Of 1,356 accidental deaths by gunshot in 1994, 185 involved children 14 years old and younger
For each such fatality, there are several accidental shootings that cause serious injury.
Guns were also the means of destruction in 19,590 suicides,[/b] 210 involving children 14 or
younger. For these reasons, safe handling and storage of firearms have attractedthe attention of
the public health community.

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False positives. Regardless of which
estimates one believes, only a small fraction
of adults have used guns defensively
in 1994. The only question is whether
that fraction is 1 in 1,800 (as one would
conclude from the NCVS) or 1 in 100
(as indicated by the NSPOF estimate
based on Kleck and Gertz's criteria).

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34 year old Californian named Brent Thomas Posada, who got shot in the abdomen
and was taken to the hospital, told police that he was just standing on the sidewalk minding
his own business when a black man approached him and held a gun to his head. He says he
shoved the gun away and it went off in his abdomen.

He had described the black male suspect as 6 feet tall, 185 pounds, and in his late 20s. Posada
said that the man had been “wearing a black hoodie-style sweatshirt, blue jeans and black,
high-top shoes with silver stripes,” the The Record Search Light reported.

Well, the police looked around and there was no blood on the sidewalk and things didn’t seem
quite right about this whole story.

That was when Posada finally admitted that he had “intentionally” shot himself in the stomach
with a high-powered air rifle while he was inside his residence.

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