Gun Control & RKBA

sarisataka

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16. Or one could say that 10%

Mon May 16, 2016, 12:26 PM

May 2016

Of those DGUs saved a life and therefore saved 20,000 people or more than double homicides.

It is hard to measure a non-event true. Using the FBI data from 2014, 1.2% of violent crimes resulted in Murder. Applying that statistic to DGUs will approximate out to 2500 lives saved. It does not fully offset the 8500 however it is not an insignificant number.

Also an important consideration is how many violent assaults and sexual assaults were prevented with those DGUs. It is likely they far exceed the number of homicides.

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Or one could say that 10% sarisataka May 2016 #16

1.2% milk jimmy the one May 2016 #17

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