Are guns more likely to shoot perpetrators vs innocent person

[Robert_Sock]

All I’m interested in are two statistics:1) the likelihood personal guns are actually used to shoot an intruder or some person physically threating someone; 2) the likelihood given a gun causing someone innocent to be shoot (including murders and suicides).

 

[Peggy_in_Burien]

Just remember, the gun causes nothing. A gun is an inanimate tool, until a person decides to use it.

You could look up the stats on people using guns on Wiki.

 

[Robert_Sock]

It’s odd that people are so wrapped up in gun issues but nobody knows these statistics. Do guns save innocent lives, or are personal guns more likely to involved in innocent shootings?

 

[Irish_Cabbie]

All I’m interested in are two statistics:1) the likelihood personal guns are actually used to shoot an intruder or some person physically threating someone; 2) the likelihood given a gun causing someone innocent to be shoot (including murders and suicides).

Why are you unable to research this yourself? Why are you asking this question again? I answered it for you yesterday on a thread that you started and which has since been closed. I’m fairly confident that you read what I wrote yesterday. In case you haven’t, I will, once again, and with charity, repeat what I told you yesterday. Americans use firearms over a million times a year for defensive purposes. In the vast majority of those cases, the firearm is merely brandished and not discharged. As I told you yesterday, there have been a number of well-respected, well-documented, academic studies that have been undertaken which attest to this fact. Please see the following links:

justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp

pulpless.com/gunclock/kleck1.html

saf.org/LawReviews/SouthwickJr1.htm

guncite.com/kleckandgertztable1.html

You asked for statistics on how many people are killed by firearms (including suicides) each year. That information was also provided to you yesterday. That said, and again with charity, I will tell you that approximately 35,000 lives are lost each year in America due to firearms. That number includes lives lost to crimes involving firearms, plus lives lost to accidents involving firearms, plus lives lost to suicides involving firearms.

To sum it up for you once again, over one million lives are saved each year by Americans using firearms for defensive purposes. About 35,000 American lives are lost each year due to gun violence. I hope that clears things up for you.

Please see the following links for more even more information, as well as sources for all of the statistics that I mentioned above:

gunowners.org/sk0802htm.htm

rense.com/general76/mths.htm

 

[Robert_Sock]

To sum it up for you once again, over one million lives are saved each year by Americans using firearms for defensive purposes. About 35,000 American lives are lost each year due to gun violence. I hope that clears things up for you.

Do these figures include police work? Thanks for your patients!

 

[J_Peterson]

To sum it up for you once again, over one million lives are saved each year by Americans using firearms for defensive purposes. About 35,000 American lives are lost each year due to gun violence. I hope that clears things up for you.

Where does that statistic come from? Is this what you are referring to?

• A 1993 nationwide survey of 4,977 households found that over the previous five years, at least 3.5% of households had members who had used a gun “for self-protection or for the protection of property at home, work, or elsewhere.” Applied to the U.S. population, this amounts to 1,029,615 such incidents per year. This figure excludes all “military service, police work, or work as a security guard.”[19]

Because that is not the same as a million lives saved. Who were the 4977 people that were surveyed.

 

[Irish_Cabbie]

Do these figures include police work? Thanks for your patients! [sic]

With all due respect, my patience has run out. If I have to hold someone’s hand, that person isn’t going to be named Robert.

You can and should conduct your own research. To that end, might I respectfully suggest that you begin your research by actually reading the information that I others have already provided to you. If you do just that, I’m fairly certain you will find your answer.

Good luck.

 

[Irish_Cabbie]

Where does that statistic come from? Is this what you are referring to? … Because that is not the same as a million lives saved. Who were the 4977 people that were surveyed.

Are the links that I provided above not working for you?

 

[wynnejj]

All I’m interested in are two statistics:1) the likelihood personal guns are actually used to shoot an intruder or some person physically threating someone; 2) the likelihood given a gun causing someone innocent to be shoot (including murders and suicides).

All I’m interested in are two statistics:1) the likelihood that military armaments are actually used to kill the enemy or some belligerent military force threatening our country; 2) the likelihood given the military armaments of causing innocents to be shot (including collateral damage, casualties in training exercises & friendly fire, accidents and unjust wars).

The missing element in confining questions in this way is the “escalation” factor … the synergy of military capability and the willingness to use it when inappropriate.

The third question that should be asked is how much does 1 & 2 grow as the active ingredient – assault / defense capability – grows?

 

[Robert_Sock]

With all due respect, my patience has run out. If I have to hold someone’s hand, that person isn’t going to be named Robert.

You can and should conduct your own research. To that end, might I respectfully suggest that you begin your research by actually reading the information that I others have already provided to you. If you do just that, I’m fairly certain you will find your answer.

Good luck.

Is asking who the samples were that tough of a question to answer?