Tough Targets: When Criminals Face Armed Resistance from Citizens

[JerryC]

Interesting paper from the Cato Institute about how guns thwart crimes and save lives.
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14031

Summed up in this blog from Reason Magazine

http://reason.com/blog/2012/02/03/new-cato-paper-catalogs-defensive-gun-us/print

Kind of shows that the view that a gun in the home is more likely to be used against the homeowner is <deleted>.

Criminals took away defenders' guns in 11 out of 4,669 incidents, and the defender ended up dead despite being armed in 36 incidents, less than 1 percent of the time.

 

[Michael R.]

Funny. They said the same thing in my health book.To clarify, they said that most homeowners buy a gun for defense, but they end up getting shooting themselves when they get attacked.

 

[Twmaster]

Well there goes at least two of the false arguments the gun grabbers love to use.

Thank you for the link to that report.

EDIT: I just read the white paper. Very informative. Pretty much reinforces what many in the gun community have been saying for years.

 

[Sam1911]

<Let's leave politics out of this discussion and focus on the findings of the report.>

 

[mgkdrgn]

Well there goes at least two of the false arguments the gun grabbers love to use.

You are operating from the false assumption that they care a whit about facts.

 

[bergmen]

Thanks, just ordered the book.

Dan