Stand your ground against gun violence

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6. Weren't the very low numbers of justifiable gun homicides JUST used by the VPC

to show the uselessness of CCWs??


"Washington, DC — New research from the Violence Policy Center (VPC) confirms that contrary to what the firearms industry and gun lobby claim, private citizens rarely use guns to kill criminals or stop crimes.

The study finds that in 2013, the most recent year for which data is available, there were only 211 justifiable homicides involving a private citizen using a firearm reported to the SHR. Twenty states reported zero justifiable homicides in 2013. That year, there were 7,838 criminal firearm homicides.

The study also finds only a tiny fraction of the intended victims of violent crime or property crime employ guns for self-defense. Over a three-year period from 2012 to 2014, less than one percent of victims of attempted or completed violent crimes used a firearm, and only 0.2 percent of victims of attempted or completed property crimes used a firearm."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/126210633

http://www.vpc.org/press/self-defense-gun-use-is-rare-new-vpc-study-confirms/


While in 2012, a bump in rate of 1 extra homicide in a million found justifiable is the cause for all kinds of alarms.