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Originally Posted by kel
Ay, and therein lies the rub. It is very unclear whether Joe-handgun-carrier is better off. There is the argument worth entertaining that if you give up your wallet, get raped etc. that no one will be killed.
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According to the NCVS, that's not true. Joe Handgun Carrier is 13% less likely (20% as opposed to 33%) to be injured in an attack if he uses the gun for self defense than if he just gives the attacker whatever he wants, and 30% (2.5 TIMES!!!) (20% as opposed to 50%) less likely to be injured if he defends himself with a gun than if he resists by any other means. Now before you say "that's just the Bushies controlling what BJS says", the report was released in 1994, during the Clinton years.
Even Kellermann, a notoriously anti-gun "researcher" has publicly stated that if his wife were to be attacked, he'd want her to meet the attack with a gun in her hand.