Gun Control & RKBA

Turbineguy

(38,399 posts) Thu Oct 15, 2015, 10:10 AM Oct 2015

Guns as a deterent [View all]

One of my students informs me that 2 million crimes per year are deterred by guns "....but you don't see that on the news..." I don't know how to even begin researching that.

FBI stats talks about 10 million violent and property crimes in 2013. But these are reported. The crimes that are deterred and therefore never happened, are they reported and tracked?

I suppose that the left wing news would not report what did not happen and Fox news would not report it because nobody would believe them.

I don't interact much with people because they might be crazy and armed. I suppose that counts. " a grey-haired guy came up to me but left because I was armed". I suppose that could be called a deterred crime.

I'm not looking for a big argument, just wondering if the 2 million number is accurate.

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Guns as a deterent [View all] Turbineguy Oct 2015 OP

Guns don't deter crime - Jobs with living wages deter crime tk2kewl Oct 2015 #1

+1 daleanime Oct 2015 #3

education too tk2kewl Oct 2015 #4

A more accurate assessment: Guns deter or protect one from attacks... Eleanors38 Oct 2015 #11

really? tk2kewl Oct 2015 #12

USA has 320,000,000 civilian arms. Homicide rates keep going down. Eleanors38 Oct 2015 #16

Nope. pablo_marmol Oct 2015 #20

It's simple, if they want to include all the fantasy of 'deterred' crime.... daleanime Oct 2015 #2

Fantasy and fear mikeysnot Oct 2015 #5

you'll get dueling banjos jimmy the one Oct 2015 #6

Thanks. Turbineguy Oct 2015 #7

Here, mate. Decoy of Fenris Oct 2015 #13

I wouldn't be too quick to dismiss Dr. Gary Kleck. pablo_marmol Oct 2015 #21

The CDC considered sarisataka Oct 2015 #8

Myth of Specific Cause Bias Turbineguy Oct 2015 #9

Here's the CDC sponsored study. branford Oct 2015 #14

It's probably propaganda. Decoy of Fenris Oct 2015 #10

By an excutive order Obama gave the CDC ten million dollars to do a report on gun violence. ... spin Oct 2015 #15

Spin, you have always been very open minded and sane on this topic. Thanks for the post. nt Logical Oct 2015 #17

Thanks for your support. (n/t) spin Oct 2015 #22

That is 7,000 DGU a day? I say BS on that. I think many gun fans love bragging about it to justify.. Logical Oct 2015 #18

After getting my pee-pee wacked on a few threads I've come up Turbineguy Oct 2015 #19

Well, you have to figure that in high-crime areas krispos42 Oct 2015 #23

Oh, and I guess self-defense would include defense against animals. krispos42 Oct 2015 #24