HuffPo Writes Off Three-Quarter Million Defensive Handgun Uses

[PocketProtector]

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journal...-handgun-uses/

Following a pattern similar to one we’ve seen in Slate, Politico Magazine, and The Washington Post, the Huffington Post is now contending that guns are used to shoot and kill bad guys only about “450” times a year, and the NRA mantra about good guys with guns stopping bad guys with guns is plain hogwash.

According to the HuffPo guns are used for “justifiable homicide” about “450” times a year. To support this, they link to an FBI page which shows that law enforcement officers shot and justifiably killed about “458” people in 2013. They then contrast this with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistics on accidental firearm deaths to claim that guns are more frequently involved in accidental death scenarios than in defensive gun uses (DGUs).

Again—the only DGUs that HuffPo counts are those carried out by a law enforcement officer. By comparing apples to oranges in this way, they are able to show only 450 DGUs in 2013 vs 500 accidental gun deaths. Then, they proudly pronounce the argument over by asking that we please not “waste [their] time with the nonsense about how millions of crimes are prevented each year by [good guys] walking around with guns.”

But in reality, when we look at DGUs by armed citizens throughout the country rather than by the small percentage of our population represented by law enforcement officers, the numbers are quite different. Breitbart News previously reported that a low estimate of DGUs is “760,000” annually. That works out to about 14,615 DGUs a week and about 2,082 DGUs a day.

Now we can accurately compare DGUs to accidental gun deaths, and when we do, we see that the 500 accidental gun deaths cited by the HuffPo are all but eclipsed by the low estimate of 760,000 DGUs each year.

[pennlineman]

You'll have to excuse me when I can't muster up any sympathy for any of them when they become a victim because of their own lies and idiocy.

[ReconLdr]

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journal...-handgun-uses/

Following a pattern similar to one we’ve seen in Slate, Politico Magazine, and The Washington Post, the Huffington Post is now contending that guns are used to shoot and kill bad guys only about “450” times a year, and the NRA mantra about good guys with guns stopping bad guys with guns is plain hogwash.

According to the HuffPo guns are used for “justifiable homicide” about “450” times a year. To support this, they link to an FBI page which shows that law enforcement officers shot and justifiably killed about “458” people in 2013. They then contrast this with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistics on accidental firearm deaths to claim that guns are more frequently involved in accidental death scenarios than in defensive gun uses (DGUs).

Again—the only DGUs that HuffPo counts are those carried out by a law enforcement officer. By comparing apples to oranges in this way, they are able to show only 450 DGUs in 2013 vs 500 accidental gun deaths. Then, they proudly pronounce the argument over by asking that we please not “waste [their] time with the nonsense about how millions of crimes are prevented each year by [good guys] walking around with guns.”

But in reality, when we look at DGUs by armed citizens throughout the country rather than by the small percentage of our population represented by law enforcement officers, the numbers are quite different. Breitbart News previously reported that a low estimate of DGUs is “760,000” annually. That works out to about 14,615 DGUs a week and about 2,082 DGUs a day.

Now we can accurately compare DGUs to accidental gun deaths, and when we do, we see that the 500 accidental gun deaths cited by the HuffPo are all but eclipsed by the low estimate of 760,000 DGUs each year.

They can say what ever they want by playing with numbers but... I bet there are 82 people who were in that theater (Aurora Colorado) that wished they had a gun of their own.....

It really baffles me how some "smart people" can be so fucking dumb.....

[Philbert]

Great, we can save a lot of money by taking guns away from the police.

[PSUWaz00]

Huff post sucks...I troll them on twitter the best I can when they post stupid things...it gets tiring sometimes.

[BobGun]

Huff post sucks...I troll them on twitter the best I can when they post stupid things...it gets tiring sometimes.

I have yet to see them post anything that isn't stupid.

[PocketProtector]

They can say what ever they want by playing with numbers but... I bet there are 82 people who were in that theater (Aurora Colorado) that wished they had a gun of their own.....

It really baffles me how some "smart people" can be so fucking dumb.....

and I bet a few atheists who were praying too.

[God's Country]

And how many more justifiable homicides would there be if the worse liberal anti gun cities (the most dangerous places to live) and all the other gun free zones allowed individual carry?