USA –-(Ammoland.com)- What is more frustrating than myths that get passed around with such regularity when no one pauses long enough to examine whether or not they are true? Maybe a case of the shingles, but other than that…
Here are some firearms and home defense myths that just won’t die.
It won’t happen to you:
“Who cares?” you might think. “It’ll never happen to me.” You’re right, it probably won’t. However, there are one heck of a lot of burglaries every year. Since “home invasion” isn’t a named crime, statistics are difficult to obtain. A “home invasion” can be a burglary. It can be an assault, It can be an armed robbery. It can be rape or murder. You get the idea. Since there is no specific tracking for violent home invasions, we have to look at the associated crimes. Depending on the year and source, consider these figures.
There are between two and nearly four million burglaries every year in the United States.
In about a million of these cases, someone is home when the intruder breaks in.
Over a quarter million people become victims of a violent assault associated with a home break-in.
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