Richard Casady wrote:
On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:45:16 -0400, John H
wrote:

Utter bull****. In most cases handguns are never used in anger. 99% of
them. Your 'most cases' falls in the 1 %. A guy once pulled a knife on
me and demanded money. I pulled a .45 and told him to run. He did.
Had he tried to ' use it against me' I would have shot him several
times. Back in the bin.

Casady
You're much better off listening to Krause. He never bull****s. He
went to Yale, you know.

Reggie may have been talking about h

My use resulted in no shots fired, so it wasn't even reported, Nothing
in the statistics. There are estimates that guns are used to chase off
trouble more than a million times a year, without anyone bothering to
report it. Many successful crimes are also unreported, so it is hard
to get at the truth, even without an ax to grind.

Casady

Well you are probably correct that it is very difficult to get reliable
gun statistics, but according to the CDC and bureau of Justice
Statistics: "Suicides typically make up 56.5% of all gun deaths
according to the Bureau Of Justice Statistics. In fact, drugs and
suicides account for more than 2 out of every 3 gun deaths in the USA. "

According to the CDC for the 6 yr period from 1/1/2000 to 12/31/2006
there were 209,773 deaths by handguns.

As I said, I have no problems if the laws remain the same or if they
change, but I have never felt that I needed a handgun for protection..
I go downtown without any fear, including some of the cities with high
crime rates, Atlanta, Washington DC, Miami, NYC, and have never been
threatened. I personally think it is because I don't look like an easy
target, others might say it is because I look like the kind of person
who would go postal if threated. But, based upon the way I use my cell
phone (it normally stays in my car) , if and when I needed a handgun, it
would not be close by.

From the estimates I have read, the estimates that guns are used to
prevent crime are between 400,000 and 2.5 million. The problem is all
of these statistics are very dubious, because of what one defines as
crime prevention. Does it include when someone pulls out a gun due to
road rage? I really can't figure out what I am doing to have lived all
of my life, and never had anyone try to rob me or threaten my life, but
if I could figure it out, I need to bottle it and sell it.

--
Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq.

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