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

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42. So, you must believe that the "liberal media"

just doesn't report these things because they are just so biased. 4,500 defensive gun uses a month that just somehow don't make it into news reports? We hear of 1 about every 3 months? The other 13,000 just slide under the radar? Fuck you people.

If there truly were 4,500 such cases per month, hundreds of thousands in just the last few years, nearly every person in the nation would know someone who had "defended" themselves with a gun. I know of no one. Not one. Not even someone who has told a story that I suspect was not entirely true. I know a lot of gun owners and I've been around for 60 years. I do, however, know of many people who have been killed, shot, shot at, nearly shot, or merely threatened with guns by people who should never have been allowed to have a gun, or people who killed or nearly killed simply because a gun was available and handy.

I start with an incident when I was about 5. My Mom told my uncle (my father's brother) that he could come by and crash on the couch after work on the night shift if he was too tired to drive all the way back home to Detroit. She forgot she told him that, forgot to tell my father, then woke up in the middle of the night and nudged my father. "There's someone in the house." My father grabbed his shotgun and almost shot his own brother. I will never forget the sounds of that night. Fuck you people.

Then there was a kid I knew in junior high school who was murdered by his mother because she was going through a divorce and didn't want the kids going with the father. She shot and killed her kids and then herself. Too bad the kid didn't have a gun, he could have shot his mother in self defense, then lived with THAT the rest of his life. Fuck you people.

I remember a kid in college who came in with a bandage on his cheek. I did not know him well. Apparently, his buddy was fooling around with a handgun and it discharged. The "I didn't know it was loaded" scenario. He was lucky.

Then there was my friend Chris, who shot himself in a moment of despair over a woman. Permanent solution to a temporary problem. Maybe he would have found another way if he didn't love guns and didn't have them around all the time. But maybe if it wasn't so convenient, he would not have killed himself.
Fuck you people.

So, you accept things that you think are "factual" because you want to believe them, not necessarily because they make sense, are logical or physically possible. You are willing to believe some "study" because it suits your needs. I often wonder what the motivation is behind these "studies". How are the questions worded? How do they pick the participants? How many of the "I perteck-ed myself with a gun" people are just bragging to validate their ownership of a weapon?