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Originally Posted by Phoenix
you know the NRA is going to be combing all papers and news sources for this sort of thing right now.
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They happen thousands of times a year, where an armed citizen stops a crime, mostly just by the presence of a firearm. National media never picks up those stories....
There are actually a bunch of studies that show this, but the most widely known is the study by Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz, completed in the 1990s, when violent crime rates were higher than they are today. That study found that there were somewhere between 830,000 and 2.45 million defensive gun uses per year in the United States.
Look up the study by Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz, ?Armed Resistance to Crime: The Prevalence and Nature of Self-Defense with a Gun,? Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 86 (1995): 173.
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