divemedic
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They're not just statistics.
But when it comes to lawmaking, they are just a number. Remember that the allegation that LEOs are more likely to be the victim of a felonious assault is the reason why a retired LEO from Alaska has the ability to carry a concealed weapon in Illinois, and I don't. You refute such claims by proving that LEOs are not more likely to face such assaults when off the job.
Even on the job, police officers are not being killed at a higher rate than the general population of our major cities, yet many of our largest cities deny the citizens their most effective means of self defense: firearms.
and BTW- the fact that 5.6 officers per 100,000 were feloniously killed in 2009 is not technically a statistic, it is a fact. To simplify things: A statistic is basically a prediction of how the total population will react based upon how a randomly selected subset of that population reacted. Recording the death rate of the entire population of police officers is not a statistic, but a mere reporting of the facts.