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March 14, 2008

Shocking Statistics That Will Challenge Your World View!

Would you believe that criminals don't want to get shot?

When sexual assaults started rising in Orlando, Fla., in 1986, police officers noticed women were arming themselves, so they launched a firearms safety course for them. Over the next 12 months, sexual assaults plummeted by 88 percent, burglaries fell by 25 percent and not one of the 2,500 women who took the course fired a gun in a confrontation.

...The brief cites a study that discovered, based on interviews with felony prisoners in 11 prisons in 10 states, one third of the felons had been “scared off, shot at, wounded or captured by an armed victim,” and nearly four in 10 had decided against committing a specific crime because they thought the victim might have a gun.

“Seventy-four percent agreed with the statement that ‘One reason burglars avoid houses where people are at home is that they fear being shot,’” the study said.

I adore Rachel Lucas, because she comes up with stuff like this:

Doesn’t it boggle your mind to know that there are still supposedly intelligent, thoughtful people who truly believe that having a gun in the house is pointless, silly, too dangerous, and nothing but proof that you’re a jackass with a small-penis complex?

I know people who think that. Close friends, even. They have college degrees and make sensible decisions in all other aspects of life, but man, you bring up guns with them and WATCH OUT. It’s like seeing Einstein turn into Corky the Retard right before your eyes.

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Posted by Mr. Bingley at March 14, 2008 10:38 AM

Comments

Posted by: The_Real_JeffS at March 14, 2008 10:46 AM

Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at March 14, 2008 10:49 AM