{"id":66334,"date":"2016-06-15T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66334"},"modified":"2016-06-15T07:59:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T11:59:09","slug":"ingraham-for-every-gun-used-in-self-defense-six-more-are-used-to-commit-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66334","title":{"rendered":"Ingraham: For every gun used in self-defense, six more are used to commit a crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=66340\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-66340\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Christopher-Ingraham-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher Ingraham\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-66340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Christopher-Ingraham-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Christopher-Ingraham-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Christopher-Ingraham-416x333.jpg 416w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Christopher-Ingraham.jpg 1484w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We talked about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61588\">Christopher Ingraham <\/a>last year when he furiously scribbled in his coloring book (the Washington Post) last summer about the metrics of mass shooting statistics. He thought some subReddit group had a better measure for tracking mass shootings than the FBI. The FBI counted three dead victims as a mass shooting, but the Reddit group counted four victims (dead or otherwise) including the gun man. <\/p>\n<p>Checking on the stories that they were counting as &#8220;mass shootings&#8221; we found some of our &#8220;feel good stories&#8221; where citizens  defended themselves from criminals were classified as mass shootings.<\/p>\n<p>Well, today we find Ingraham in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2016\/06\/14\/for-every-gun-used-in-self-defense-six-more-are-used-to-commit-a-crime\/\">the Post<\/a> complaining that only one in six shootings result from people defending themselves from criminals &#8211; so self-defense isn&#8217;t a good enough reason to own a gun.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Looking at what happened after people took action to prevent a crime, Hemenway and Solnik found that people were far better off either running away, or calling the cops if possible, rather than attempting to stop a crime with a gun. &#8220;Running away and calling the police were associated with a reduced likelihood of injury after taking action; self-defense gun use was not,&#8221; they write.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, well, Ingraham should read our feel good stories every morning instead of simply looking at statistics. Those are real stories about real people whose lives were saved because they were able to defend themselves in situations that were not of their choosing. Just because it doesn&#8217;t happen enough times to satisfy the gun grabbers like Ingraham, that doesn&#8217;t mean that folks shouldn&#8217;t be able to defend themselves in the world that people like Ingraham have created for us.<\/p>\n<p>I guess he&#8217;d be happier if 100% of guns were used to commit crimes. Another breathless alarmist afraid of guns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We talked about Christopher Ingraham last year when he furiously scribbled in his coloring book (the &hellip; <a title=\"Ingraham: For every gun used in self-defense, six more are used to commit a crime\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66334\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ingraham: For every gun used in self-defense, six more are used to commit a crime<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gun-grabbing-fascists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}