Re: turn in your knives!

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Tue, 30 May 2006 16:46:39 EDT, Blanchard_Michael () emc com said:
>  ahhh, in the range of 2-4 million lives saved due to firearms.

Assuming, of course, that lives were *saved* in the incidents in question.

If you get attacked by a mugger, and chase him off by brandishing a gun,
does it count as a "life saved"?  Probably not, as not all muggers kill
all their victims.

I'll buy that 2M to 4M people have been in situations where having a gun
helped their bargaining position. But that's different than "lives saved",
just as I've been in car crashes where wearing a seat belt *helped* - but
it didn't save my life - just a broken nose or knocked out teeth from
not hitting the dashboard with my face....

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