For a guaranteed blank stare, ask gun-control proponents how often Americans use guns to defend themselves. They can't tell you, because they don't ask. Former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney David P. Koppel studied gun control for the Cato Institute. Citing a 1979-1985 study by the National Crime Victimization Survey, Koppel found: "When a robbery victim does not defend himself, the robber succeeds 88 percent of the time, and the victim is injured 25 percent of the time. When a victim resists with a gun, the robbery success rate falls to 30 percent, and the victim injury rate falls to 17 percent. No other response to a robbery from drawing a knife to shouting for help to fleeing produces such low rates of victim injury and robbery success." Full Article http://news.yahoo.com/yes-guns-kill-often-used-self-defense-070000428.html
I did not know of this study. The data is a bit dated though and doesn't represent the number of gun owners in today's world.
I never said it wasn't. If we call them on using outdated data, then we have to do the same for ourselves or we lose all credibility.
There is another question that should be asked. How many murders are conducted with legal obtain firearms as opposed to those illegally obtained? Remember gun control and weapons bans only regulate illegally owned weapons. It does nothing to remove the threat of illegally owned weapons. How do the liberals avoid that question? They use the Liberal idiot mantra. "As long as one life can be saved." But the question that they want to completely avoid is, how many lives will be lost because law abiding citizens will not be able to defend themselves against illegally obtained weapons?
