re: #3 Skip Intro

Don’t think for a minute that advocacy sites don’t mislead one way or another. I don’t want to get into a argument who is worse, just point out that advocacy sites bend the rules or mislead. Including HCI. That’s the nature of advocacy. It is deliberately and (often enough) intelligently not objective.

If you want straight data you have to get it from the Dept of Justice, FBI or ATF and compile the data yourself. This topic is so highly politicized that there is no neutral party peer reviewed study in depth on defensive use of guns. There are reams and reams of raw data.

All those guns have not made us safe. Why? Too many of them are being used in criminal attacks. All these numerous gun control laws have not made us safe. Why? Too many criminals thwart these laws and use guns anyway.

What is the common element here? Criminal use. We have an excess of criminals that use violence. I don’t need study to tell me what an innocent person needs if attacked in the moments before help arrives. Nor do I need a study to tell me what a criminal must be denied to protect us from his powerful weapons.

No matter what the real defensive numbers I offer two incontrovertible if controversial facts. One-The government can regulate guns. Two- The Second Amendment is an individual civil right, unburdened of any attachment to a militia.