Nine Myths of Gun Control, Second Amendment Sisters, Inc.
Myth #9 "Citizens are too incompetent to use guns for protection"
Nationally good citizens use guns about seven to ten times as frequently as the police to repel crime and apprehend criminals and they do it with a better safety record than the police. [3]
About 11% of police shootings kill an innocent person - about 2% of shootings by citizens kill an innocent person. The odds of a defensive gun user killing an innocent person are less than 1 in 26,000.[27] Citizens intervening in crime are less likely to be wounded than the police. ...
One-third of Americans live in the ... progressive states that have reformed laws to allow good citizens to readily protect themselves outside their homes. [26,27] In those states crime rates are lower for every category of crime indexed by the FBI Uniform Crime Reports. [11] Homicide, assault, and overall violent crime are each 40% lower, armed robbery is 50% lower, rape is 30% lower, and property crimes are 10% lower. [11] The reasonable reform of concealed weapon laws resulted in none of the mayhem prophesied by the anti-self-defense lobby. In fact, the data suggest that, providing they are in the hands of good citizens, more guns "on the street" offer a considerable benefit to society - saving lives, a deterrent to crime, and an adjunct to the concept of community policing. ...
Notwithstanding gun control extremists' unprophetic histrionics , the observed reality was that crime fell, in part, because vicious predators fear an unpredictable encounter with an armed citizen even more than they fear apprehension by police [34] or fear our timid and porous criminal justice system. ...
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Note that the evidence is backed up with footnotes on the link cited.
The footnotes are from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, US Department of Justice.
macdaddy: how about some support for your views other than your feelings.
Bubba: By Utah law, the off duty officer had to have a concealed carry license be he a postal worker, banker or police officer if he wanted to carry a concealed gun.
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I really don't see much good coming out of this whole mess. How many innocent people will be killed by some well doer because he misreads a situation?
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According to the evidence, 11 chances in 100 with the police and less than 2 chances in 100 with a citizen with a gun.