Dessutom har antalet inbrott sjunkit drastiskt i många stater, framför allt inbrott i lägenheter/hus där folk är hemma. Tjuvarna vet att de riskerar att bli skjutna om de bryter sig in.
Sen läste jag en väldigt intressant artikel om hur många kvinnor som sluppit bli våldtagna, misshandlade eller mördade på grund av att de hade ett handeldvapen. Det var inga små siffror.
Jag hittade förresten artikeln nu, här är några citat från den:
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Yale economist John Lott, author of the book, "More Guns, Less Crime." points to not only the benefits of safety locks, but also their costs. Yes, locks may prevent a child's accidental death. But locks also take time to remove, perhaps allowing an intruder that additional bit of time to kill, wound or maim. According to Lott and John Whitley of the University of Chicago, 17 states have passed child access-prevention laws. Not only do such laws fail to reduce accidental firearm death and suicide among children, but the researchers estimate that 15 of those states had a combined total of 3,800 more rapes, 21,000 more burglaries, and almost 50,000 more robberies than they would have had without such laws!
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The president says that 13 children die, per day, from handguns. But 70 percent of these "children" fall between the ages of 17 and 19, the majority of whom were killed in gang-related shootings. More children die each year from bathtub drownings, swimming pool drownings, and fires caused by matches.
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Former Manhattan assistant district attorney David Kopel says, "When a robbery victim does not defend himself, the robber succeeds 88 percent of the time, and the victim is injured 25 percent of the time. When a victim resists with a gun, the robbery success rate falls to 30 percent, and the victim injury rate falls to 17 percent. No other response to a robbery -- from drawing a knife to shouting for help, to fleeing -- produces such low rates of victim injury and robbery success. ... In the 1960s, the Orlando (Florida) police responded to a rape epidemic by training 2,500 women to use guns. The next year, rape fell 88 percent and burglary by 25 percent."
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?id=2330