{"id":61268,"date":"2015-08-07T12:16:06","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T16:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61268"},"modified":"2015-08-07T12:27:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T16:27:12","slug":"david-hemenway-guns-dont-make-you-safer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61268","title":{"rendered":"David Hemenway: guns don’t make you safer"},"content":{"rendered":"

This fellow, David Hemenway, a Harvard professor, writes in the LA Times <\/a>about how statistically guns don’t make you safer in your home. He drags out the old canard that households with guns are more likely to have a suicide committed by someone with a gun and that households with guns keep the criminals supplied with firearms. <\/p>\n

He claims that women aren’t necessarily safer with a gun because he could only find one woman who defended herself from an attacker with a gun out of 1100 cases he looked at…more than five years ago.<\/p>\n

In terms of deterrence, a recent study found that states with higher levels of household gun ownership have higher levels of firearm crime and do not have lower levels of other types of crime.<\/p>\n

Another study, in 2003, found that counties with higher levels of household gun ownership have higher rates of household burglary, not lower. Burglars like to steal not only cash and jewelry but also guns. A homeowner with a collection of firearms may not want to advertise that fact.<\/p>\n

As for thwarting crime, gun advocates claim that guns are commonly used in self-defense, and that without a firearm, one is essentially at the mercy of a criminal. Yet, again, that is not what the data show.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, I troll through the news everyday looking for articles for our “feel good stories”. These stories are getting fewer and further between. But you know what hasn’t changed? Stories about families being tortured, tied up, and murdered because they don’t have a gun to protect themselves. Don’t believe me? Google “home invasion” and look at the “news” in the last 24 hours. There are more than 80 local stories about 93-year-olds knocked from their wheel chairs and beaten with a cane. Women who were tied up and raped in their own homes. A father shot in the head in front of his children. These stories come from across the country, but you don’t read about them, unless you’re looking for them.<\/p>\n

We’ve been running these “feel good stories” about legal gun owners who successfully defended themselves and their families from criminals for more than three years, we’ve had at least one story everyday. That’s about 1100 stories, and probably 1099 more stories than David Hemenway read.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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