yeah and today the Violence Policy Center released a nineteen page report .. and GUESS WHAT? ... Justifiable HOMICIDES are RARE!__Guns are rarely used to kill criminals or stop crimes [ http://www.vpc.org/studies/justifiable.pdf ]
The conclusion of Firearm Justifiable Homicides and Non-Fatal Self-Defense Gun Use, according to the new study just released by the VPC is subtitled "An Analysis of Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Crime Victimization Survey Data."
The report analyzes national data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program’s Supplementary Homicide Report (SHR) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics' National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS).
In an email sent out by Josh Sugarman, executive director of the Violence Policy Center and co-author of the study, he quotes from the study that
Please keep reading.
Since receiving the email from Sugarman, I have quickly read through the study, which is only 19 pages.
Let me first offer a bit of what he emphasizes in the email as "key finding" -
I will list the summaries of the findings first:
Firearm Justifiable Homicides by Private Citizens Occur Rarely
Firearms are Rarely Used in Self-Defense by Victims of Attempted or Completed Violent Crimes
Firearms are Rarely Used in Self-Defense by Victims of Attempted or Completed Property Crimes
Total Number of Actual Self-Defense Firearm Uses are Only a Small Fraction of Pro-Gun Claims
More than a Third of Persons Shot and Killed in Justifiable Homicides in 2010 Were Known to the Shooter
The study provides substantial detail to back up each of those assertions. Since the study is not all that long, I will not go through all of the details. But consider just this, from the email, for the first of the points listed above (copying from the email):
Remember, this study is based on FBI data.
It clearly gives the lie to the assertions made by the NRA and others on this subject in the attempt to foment fear to prevent meaningful regulations on guns.
Here is the conclusion, which is worth remembering:
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