Yes Yes, must attack US instead of the LIEbral's and their fiction.... firearms for self defence are bad, pepper spray for self defence is bad, thinking something other than what Libs and CBC say to think is bad .... bad in your opinion. In the UK they have the ban the knife crowd and their creating fear of another inanimate object.. quite ridiculous actually.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....act_id=3887145
"guns are used defensively by firearms owners in approximately 1.67 million incidents per year. Handguns are the most common firearm employed for self-defense (used in 65.9% of defensive incidents), and in most defensive incidents (81.9%) no shot was fired. Approximately a quarter (25.2%) of defensive incidents occurred within the gun owner's home, and approximately half (53.9%) occurred outside their home, but on their property. About one out of ten (9.1%) defensive gun uses occurred in public, and about one out of twenty (4.8%) occurred at work.
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The average gun owner owns 5 firearms, and handguns are the most common type of firearm owned. 48.0% of gun owners have owned magazines that hold over 10 rounds, and 30.2% of gun owners -- totaling about 24.6 million individuals -- have owned an AR-15 or similarly styled rifle. Demographically, gun owners are diverse. 42.2% are female and 57.8% are male. Approximately 25.4% of Blacks own firearms, 28.3% of Hispanics own firearms, 19.4% of Asians own firearms, and 34.3% of Whites own firearms."
Based on the incidents, the number of women that own firearms we can assume say... 1 in 4 is a woman defending herself... that would be about 400,000 times per year a woman would defend herself and not be the victim of a crime, but hey... self defence is bad (according to Libs).
Now as for bought out of fear, how about looking at how many million deer/duck etc hunters there are in the US, the number of target shooters, competitive shooters... no, not you, just make things up and insult. Sad.
Now back to the types of firearms and uses...
https://www.deeranddeerhunting.com/c...-united-states
Heading into fall 2020, there are about 11.4 million deer hunters in the United States. More specifically, there are about 9.4 million people who hunt deer with both gun and bow, and an additional 2 million who hunt deer only with bow (that includes all archery). If you are a casual reader, do not misread these numbers. I’m going to get geeky here, so keep reading for more specific numbers.
Again, there are 11.4 million deer hunters in the U.S. This includes 4.63 million bowhunters. We are just talking deer here; this doesn’t include elk, bears, moose, sheep, turkeys, ducks, geese, other small game, etc.
It very quickly becomes evident to anyone with a functional cerebrum that with 9,000,000+ deer hunters using rifles that there must be a huge variety being used in that purpose. There are many articles and examples of a platform like the AR being used for deer hunting for example.
https://www.deeranddeerhunting.com/c...hunting-rifles
and for Coyote etc. too.
https://www.gunsamerica.com/digest/h...oyote-hunting/
So Bill and Justlied and their "facts" are once again shown as lies and fear mongering again.