Guns are Rarely Used to Kill Criminals or Stop Crimes New VPC Analysis Reveals [View all]

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Guns are Rarely Used to Kill Criminals or Stop Crimes New VPC Analysis Reveals

Washington, DC—“Guns are rarely used to kill criminals or stop crimes” according to the new Violence Policy Center (VPC) report Firearm Justifiable Homicides and Non-Fatal Self-Defense Gun Use http://www.vpc.org/studies/justifiable.pdf 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).

VPC Executive Director and study co-author Josh Sugarmann states, “The idea that ordinary citizens need access to extraordinary firepower in order to adequately defend themselves against criminals has become the default argument against a federal assault weapons ban and limits on high-capacity ammunition magazines. This new data exposes the fallacy of such arguments and clearly demonstrates that the frequency with which guns are used in self-defense in the real world has nothing in common with pro-gun assertions that firearms are used millions of times each year to kill criminals or stop crimes. In fact, a gun is far more likely to be stolen than used in self-defense.”

Key findings of the 19-page study include the following. ...

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Full article here: https://www.vpc.org/press/1304self.htm

p.s. I do not know who those folks on that website are, and I didn't read the whole article yet.
Just thought I'd post it here for everyone before heading to bed.