Hitler has been gone almost 80 years, don't blame everything on him. If what were abandoned during Hitler's time were all good, why haven't the Germans restored them?
Almost everything has a limitation. What was good a hundred or three hundred years ago might not be good or feasible any more, that's why we still need the congress to change or abandon old laws and to make new laws.
It does not change the fact that people get killed or injured by guns.
Plus, it also gives the number of unintentional shooting, which is slightly more than defensive gun usage, and both are only 2-4% as many as the combined number of death and injury.
BTW, I even didn't bother using the number of violent crimes committed with guns to downplay the number of defensive gun usage. That's a number many times bigger than the combined number of gun-related homicide and injury. Just to give you a perspective, "in n 2011, a total of 478,400 fatal and nonfatal violent crimes were committed with a firearm. Homicides made up about 2% of all firearm-related crimes. There were 11,101 firearm homicides in 2011,..."(From department of justice -- https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/fv9311.pdf). So if we use that number, it's roughly like only one gun is used for defense for every 400 guns used by criminals.
fortyNiner 写了: 2023年 5月 10日 02:47
Hitler has been gone almost 80 years, don't blame everything on him. If what were abandoned during Hitler's time were all good, why haven't the Germans restored them?
Almost everything has a limitation. What was good a hundred or three hundred years ago might not be good or feasible any more, that's why we still need the congress to change or abandon old laws and to make new laws.
fortyNiner 写了: 2023年 5月 10日 02:57
It does not change the fact that people get killed or injured by guns.
Plus, it also gives the number of unintentional shooting, which is slightly more than defensive gun usage, and both are only 2-4% as many as the combined number of death and injury.
fortyNiner 写了: 2023年 5月 10日 01:07
Did I ever say they are non-existent? They are happening in a negligible scale. Roughly speaking, when a gun was used once for defense, about 50 innocent people were killed or wounded in recent years.
(Look at my post on 5/6. --https://newmitbbs.com/viewtopic.php?t=184460 )
Gun Violence Archive gives reference and link of every single case. If you don't trust its data, go find one that is fake. You can also go find one defensive gun usage that is not reported by it to discredit it. This is what reliable means.
Charlotte, Milwaukee, and San Francisco曾经对各自城市的枪击案受害者做过调查,下面是结论,呵呵,结论让人吃惊但又不是不可思议,俗话说,play stupid game, win stupid prize, LOL。。。
71% of gunshot victims had previous arrest records.
64% had been convicted of a crime.
Victims had an average of 11 prior arrests.
63% of victims had criminal histories and 73% of that group knew their assailant (twice as often as victims without criminal histories).
Did you look at the diagram? 20k is death from homicide and unintentional shootings. Another 20+k is from suicide.
Suicide with gun is highly successful. Most other suicidal methods are a lot less successful. Many will end up alive if they don't have easy access to guns.
So? Does it make those deaths less meaningful? Does it changed the fact that they were killed by some bad guys with guns?
jhe123 写了: 2023年 5月 10日 15:08
Charlotte, Milwaukee, and San Francisco曾经对各自城市的枪击案受害者做过调查,下面是结论,呵呵,结论让人吃惊但又不是不可思议,俗话说,play stupid game, win stupid prize, LOL。。。
71% of gunshot victims had previous arrest records.
64% had been convicted of a crime.
Victims had an average of 11 prior arrests.
63% of victims had criminal histories and 73% of that group knew their assailant (twice as often as victims without criminal histories).
I am not a linguist, and I was not giving my evidence in the court. Anyway, if it bothers you, I change it to "you almost do not use your guns for defense." Are you happy with that?
>>每年有50到200万自卫用枪的案例
Except that there is no evidence. At least Gun Violence Archive gives reference and link to every single case so that you can verify. If you know of some cases of self defense with gun that are not reported by GVA, you can show them to prove it is not trustworthy. Do you have any?
fortyNiner 写了: 2023年 5月 11日 00:43
I am not a linguist, and I was not giving my evidence in the court. Anyway, if it bothers you, I change it to "you almost do not use your guns for defense." Are you happy with that?
>>每年有50到200万自卫用枪的案例
Except that there is no evidence. At least Gun Violence Archive gives reference and link to every single case so that you can verify. If you know of some cases of self defense with gun that are not reported by GVA, you can show them to prove it is not trustworthy. Do you have any?
fortyNiner 写了: 2023年 5月 11日 00:36
So? Does it make those deaths less meaningful? Does it changed the fact that they were killed by some bad guys with guns?