Washington Post Blogger Suggests Firearms Aren’t a Deterrent To Crime If Criminals Aren’t Killed

By Bob Owens

The left wants to talk “common sense” about firearms… until common sense doesn’t suit them, of course.

We witnessed that yet again at the Washington Post several days ago, as someone called Christopher Ingraham attempted to deceive readers about the defensive use of firearms.

In 2012, there were 8,855 criminal gun homicides in the FBI’s homicide database, but only 258 gun killings by private citizens that were deemed justifiable, which the FBI defines as “the killing of a felon, during the commission of a felony, by a private citizen.”

That works out to one justifiable gun death for every 34 unjustifiable gun deaths.

Or, look at it this way. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data shows that in 2012 there were 20,666 suicides by gun. That works out to one self-defense killing for every 78 gun suicides. CDC data show that there were more than twice as many accidental gun fatalities as as justifiable killings.

Did you catch Ingraham’s dishonest trick?

Even the most rabid supporters of gun control concede a minimum of 55,000+ defensive gun uses every year, and the more credible claims range from 500,000 defensive gun uses (on the conservative side) to more than 3.5 …read more

Source:: Bearing Arms