Gun Threats and Self-Defense Gun Use

[billh58]

The following is a list from the Harvard School of Public Health. For explanations and sources, see the web page.

1-3. Guns are not used millions of times each year in self-defense.

4. Most purported self-defense gun uses are gun uses in escalating arguments and are both socially undesirable and illegal.

5. Firearms are used far more often to intimidate than in self-defense.

6. Guns in the home are used more often to intimidate intimates than to thwart crime.

7. Adolescents are far more likely to be threatened with a gun than to use one in self-defense.

8. Criminals who are shot are typically the victims of crime.

9-10. Few criminals are shot by decent law abiding citizens.

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/gun-threats-and-self-defense-gun-use-2/

The "need" for a gun for self-defense is another ALEC/NRA Big Lie to sell more guns. The vast majority of sensible Americans do NOT own guns, and have no need for them.

[jimmy the one]

1. amen from the choir

You're preaching to the choir bill!!!

(good post, & a belated welcome back)

[billh58]

3. Thanks Jimmy. n/t

[JonathanRackham]

2. A telephone survey of teenagers?

7. Adolescents are far more likely to be threatened with a gun than to use one in self-defense.

We analyzed data from a telephone survey of 5,800 California adolescents aged 12-17, which asked questions about gun threats against, and self-defense gun use by these young people. We found that these young people were far more likely to be threatened with a gun than to use a gun in self-defense, and most of the reported self-defense gun uses were hostile interactions between armed adolescents. Males, smokers, binge drinkers, those who threatened others and whose parents were less likely to know their whereabouts were more likely both to be threatened with a gun and to use a gun in self-defense.

Why didn't they contact them via Facebook?

[billh58]

4. Because they're only Harvard

scientists, and no where near as smart as you gunners Bubba.

[JonathanRackham]

5. Probably grad students assigned to a PhD.

[billh58]

6. Don't you have a

Trump rally to attend, or a Palin word salad to read? Again Bubba, you are in the wrong Group, but thanks for kicking the thread.

[JonathanRackham]

7. Not enough eggs for a Trump rally.

A lot of bad assumption on your part.

[billh58]

8. I doubt that I've made a bad

assumption, and Second Amendment absolutist gunners are known to live in denial -- so, it's all good Bubba.