{"id":60447,"date":"2015-06-18T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60447"},"modified":"2015-06-18T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T14:40:00","slug":"violence-policy-center-gun-owners-not-likely-to-use-guns-for-self-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60447","title":{"rendered":"Violence Policy Center; gun owners not likely to use guns for self-defense"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hill<\/a> reports on a recent study by the Violence Policy Center <\/a> which claims that gun owners are more likely to commit a crime in the United States with their firearm that to protect themselves. From The Hill;<\/p>\n

According to the study, gun owners committed 259 justifiable homicides compared to 8,342 criminal homicides in 2012, the most recent year data was available.<\/p>\n

That means gun owners are 32 times more likely to kill someone without cause than to act in self-defense, the study reasoned.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope legislators in every state will stop believing the self-defense myth and look at the facts,\u201d says Julia Wyman, executive director of States United to Prevent Gun Violence. \u201cGuns do not make our families or communities safer.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, I guess that would be true if those eight thousand homicides were committed by legal gun owners. The VPC doesn’t seem to discriminate between legal and illegal gun owners, they just lump in all homicides together. <\/p>\n

I also dispute the number of “justifiable homicides” as the total number of American citizens who protect themselves and their families with firearms. Since we run our daily series of those “feel good” stories that make it to their local news programs across the country, how many of those stories don’t involve “goblins” who aren’t killed? Some are wounded and recover, others simply surrender to the armed citizen, and other abandon their criminality all together and go on the lam. <\/p>\n

We have had at least one of those stories everyday for over three years. Does the Violence Policy Center think that those people don’t deserve to be alive, or to continue owning their property, or that their families don’t deserve to be safe? In my own case, because the people who wish me ill stay away completely because they know what the end result will be. How does the VPC quantify that? Well, they don’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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