80-year-old woman shoots and kills young intruder after he stabs her husband

[sarisataka]

25. Well since you have an open mind,

The Violence Policy Center, headed by Josh Sugarmann,

To end the crisis {of gun violence}, we have to regulate -or, in the case of handguns and assault weapons, completely ban -the product. We are far past the {point} where registration, licensing, safety training, background checks, or waiting periods will have much effect on firearms violence.
Read more at: http://www.azquotes.com/quote/806595

released the report Firearm Justifiable Homicides and Non-Fatal Self-Defense Gun Use, http://www.vpc.org/studies/justifiable16.pdf

In the report they acknowledge 163,600 DGUs for the years 2012-2014. Simple math breaks that down to 54,433 per year, 4544 per month and 149 per day.

Now you can accept these numbers from a group calling for extensive bans or you can accept any of several other studies, all of which are higher. (I have no "buds" at the NRA nor have I claimed the 2 million number is accurate) Alternately you can refuse to accept any and all data from any and all sources. Intellectually that puts you in the same room as climate change deniers and biblical fundamentalists.

In the real world we accept things that are factual, even when we do not like what the fact is. In a fantasy world you deny everything which does not fit into the arbitrary view you determine exists regardless of evidence to the contrary.

I know what world I am in.