American citizens use a firearm to defend themselves more than 2.4 million times EVERY YEAR - Congressman Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD

Submitted by Quest-News-Serv... on Fri, 07/27/2012 - 17:47.

One thing the national news media will always ignore is the practice of lawful self-defense. For example, most people are probably not aware of the fact that American citizens use a firearm to defend themselves more than 2.4 million times EVERY YEAR. That is more than 6,500 times EVERY DAY. This means that, each year, firearms are used 60 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives. Furthermore, of the 2.4 million self-defense cases, more than 192,000 are by women defending themselves against sexual assault. And in less than eight percent of those occasions is a shot actually fired. The vast majority of the time (92%), the mere presence of a firearm helps to avert a major crime from occurring. That is what Congressman Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) concluded after extensive research. According to Rep. Bartlett, the number of defensive uses is four times the number of crimes reported committed with guns.

John Lott, senior research scientist at the University of Maryland, agrees with Bartlett. His book "More Guns, Less Crime" documents the fact that firearms in the hands of private citizens are actually a major deterrent to crime--instead of being a cause of crime.

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2 guns per person = 1/2 the crime

 One thing I like about math is that it is not open to bias. 

Take Representatiive Bartlett's math based study for example:   since the numbers conclude that crime is reduced by the persons with guns then with that fact we can be sure that crime will be cut another 50% if persons carried 2 guns.  

Particularly women carrying 2 guns (because their first gun might be wrestled away from the fairer sex) is mathematically important.

Keep in mind that in the Olde Days of the West those guys all carried 2 guns - one for the left hand and one for the right hand.   Fast draw was the Darwinian decider.    

Now with the 3rd, 4th, and 5th guns, the math gets a little fuzzy for me....does the third gun reduce crime another 50% or just 1/2 of the remaining crime still out there after the 2nd gun?     

Whatever, I was an English major...but what I do know is I only have two hands so that 3rd gun...

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