VPC Study: Guns Used More to Murder than Defend, But Only If you Cook the Books

By Nick Leghorn

The holy grail for gun control activists is cold hard proof of the inherent evil of firearms. The ability to point to a conclusive study that states once and for all that firearms do more harm than good is seen as the tipping point: irrefutable proof that we need to ditch a Constitutionally protected right. But every time such a study surfaces, the mental gymnastics required to make the data fit the desired conclusion are on par with the East German women’s team. The Violence Policy Center recently published just such a report (being touted by HuffPo as definitive proof, as one would expect), and once again it does more to prove that gun control activists flunked high school statistics and logic classes than “prove” that guns are evil.

From The Hill:

The left-leaning Violence Policy Center released a study Wednesday that finds people are much more likely to use a gun to kill someone without cause than to protect themselves.

According to the study, gun owners committed 259 justifiable homicides compared to 8,342 criminal homicides in 2012, the most recent year data was available.

That means gun owners are 32 times more likely to kill someone without …read more

Source:: Truth About Guns