Guns in America: For every criminal killed in self-defense, 34 innocent people die

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29. Remember the old joke about the prison joke book?

New guy in prison goes to lunch. One guy gets up in front of the group and says page 142 and everybody laughs. Then he says page 167 and the room roars. New guys asks another prisoner, what's with the page numbers and laughing. Other prisoner says we have a joke book here that everybody has read 100 times so everybody knows the book by heart and the guy only has to reference the page to tell the joke.

New guy gets the book and finds a great joke and decides to try his hand. He gets up in front of the lunch crowd and says page 75 and nobody laughs. He goes back to his table and asks what went wrong and the other prisoner says " You just don't tell it right".



Per some discussion, if more gun owners used their guns to kill their attackers- would it be a bad thing because it would increase the number of gun deaths (and the ratio of defensive gun deaths to overall gun deaths) or would it be a good thing because it would support the oft repeated meme that all gun owners are psychopaths just itching to kill someone?

Per some other discussion, from the article "CDC data show that there were more than twice as many accidental gun fatalities as as justifiable killings."
I'm assuming that the vast majority of the accidental fatalities did not occur during defensive gun usages. This is like counting all traffic deaths against the deaths that occur during NASCAR races. One usage has virtually no bearing on the other usage, outside of a common object. Seems inappropriate to use when discussing defensive gun usage deaths. Same as including suicide deaths as suicide is not illegal in the USA and being a progressive web site we all support choice, such as abortion, suicide, and gun ownership, oops, well, 2 out of 3 ain't bad.

Multiple edits, deleted post, bad morning typing, sorry.