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On Mon, 24 May 2010 18:15:13 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

something like 300 people used guns legitimately to defend themselves
last year


Cite that.
I am always skeptical of statistics that start with "something like"
What are you calling "defending themselves"?
Killing the criminal?
There are no reliable statistics of the number of criminals who were
scared off by the presence of a gun in the hand of a potential victim.


Not to take up the mantle of the NRA, but I thought I read about a town in
Florida that required carry permits? My recollection was that crime dropped
slightly.