RE: turn in your knives!

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

 ahhh, in the range of 2-4 million lives saved due to firearms..... Sounds like the good far out weighs the bad to 
me.....


Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
EMC ² Corporation 
4400 Computer Dr. 
Westboro, MA 01580 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Loe [mailto:knobdy () gmail com] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 4:26 PM
To: Blanchard, Michael (InfoSec)
Cc: drsollyp () drsolly com; funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] turn in your knives!

On 5/30/06, Blanchard_Michael () emc com <Blanchard_Michael () emc com> wrote:
> On the serious side....
>
> How many lives are saved by owning a firearm in the US?  I'm serious with this question, I don't have time to look it 
> up though.  I know in "American Rifleman" magazine, there is a page dedicated to "Armed Citizen".  On this page there 
> are newspaper clips of people fending off attackers by having a firearm in their possession.  A great many of these 
> clips are from people that would surely have been killed by their attacker.   Ok, the anti-gun person would say, dial 
> 911 (or other suitable outside US emergency number).  How can a 80 year old person dial 911 and still fend off their 
> attacker until the police show up and not be dead when they arrive.....
>   So I ask this question, how many lives have firearms saved....  Citizen's lives, not on duty police, etc....

There are no good sources for this - since many go unreported and
those that are reported often don't get counted. John Lott did a
study, as did Kleck, you can always refer to them. It's in the range
of 2-4 million though, I think.

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