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Re: turn in your knives!
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 17:03:21 -0400
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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