Random Thoughts About the Risk of Being Shot to Death

By Robert Farago

A TTAG reader sent us a link to a Pew Research study from 2013. The article highlights Americans’ ignorance of the fact – fact – that firearms-related homicides have dropped precipitously over the last 20 years, even as firearms ownership has soared to new, previously unimaginable heights. Gun rights advocates may be tempted to conclude that more guns = less crime, what with John Lott’s book of the same name making that point in excruciating detail. Meanwhile, gun control advocates would say that the fall in firearms-related homicide proves that the average American doesn’t need a gun. For my part, I’d like to point out that . . .

it stops being a statistic when it starts being you.

Living in a swank Texas suburb, avoiding stupid people in stupid places doing stupid things, my risk of being shot to death are lower than a snake’s belly. But it would really suck if it happened. Not just for me. As a single parent, my daughter’s life would be changed irrevocably, and not for the better. In the same way I have post-facto life insurance for an untimely death, I carry a gun as a pro-active life …Read the Rest

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