How do guns protect people

Alas, not necessarily. Just because one event comes before another does not mean that the first event caused the second.

Just because a rooster crows before sunrise does not mean that the rooster causes the sun to rise. Just because the invention of the gun came before a threefold increase in the deadliness of war does not mean that the gun is to blame.

But it no doubt played a role. As for the extent of that role, I will leave for you to ponder. You could send us a message or fill in this form. We do not have contrary evidence.

As for Dr. He is not and has never been a member of or contributor to any advocacy group on either side of the gun control debate. The finding of 1. Nevertheless, the 1.

The sponsors of these studies — nearly a dozen — are quite varied, and include anti-gun organizations, news media organizations, governments and commercial polling firms. See also Kleck and Gertz, supra note 1, pp. Gary Kleck, interview with J. In the interview with Schulman, Dr.

Kleck reports on findings from a national survey which he and Dr. Lott, Jr. See also John R. Morgan Quitno Press is an independent private research and publishing company which was founded in O ne day at a. It is abundantly clear that such things happen regularly in this country, which should not surprise us: We have million people, at least as many guns, and plenty of crime, so periodically a person will ….

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Do something, maybe anything! Such knee-jerk, emotional responses are dangerous, writes Charles W. Lives will most assuredly be lost, too.

Lots of them. How many lives are actually saved by gun ownership? This is a supremely important question that the grandstanders and ideologues usually—and conveniently—ignore. A little after a. In the meantime, Ben McCoy, a man who witnessed all of this from inside his own vehicle, happened to have his rifle with him.