I was wrong about the Second Amendment: Why my view of guns totally changed

[jeff47]

23. Well, let's look at what actually happens.

Justifiable homicide by private citizens, 2006-2010.
In 2010, there were 232 cases where a private citizen killed a felon in the act of committing that felony using a firearm. So that 232 includes your theoretical rapist, as well as every other felony. For the sake of this discussion, let's assume every single one of those 232 are women shooting men trying to rape them - that massive overcounting will help correct for woundings.

Forcible Rape:

There were an estimated at 84,767 forcible rapes reported to law enforcement in 2010.

So...we need to allow people to have guns, because it stopped 232 rapes out of 84,767. Or 0.27%

Given the 8,775 murders in 2010 by firearms, that doesn't seem like a good trade-off.

I eagerly await your indignant "you wouldn't feel that way if it was you getting raped" reply. Alternatively, you could go with the "banning guns wouldn't stop any of those murders" reply, whereafter I get to point to statistics from Australia showing it vastly reduced them.