Gun Clock Update...

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According to the National Self Defense Survey conducted by Florida State University criminologists in 1994, the rate of Defensive Gun Uses can be projected nationwide to approximately 2.5 million per year -- one Defensive Gun Use every 13 seconds.

Among 15.7% of gun defenders interviewed nationwide during The National Self Defense Survey, the defender believed that someone "almost certainly" would have died had the gun not been used for protection -- a life saved by a privately held gun about once every 1.3 minutes. (In another 14.2% cases, the defender believed someone "probably" would have died if the gun hadn't been used in defense.)

In 83.5% of these successful gun defenses, the attacker either threatened or used force first -- disproving the myth that having a gun available for defense wouldn't make any difference.

In 91.7% of these incidents the defensive use of a gun did not wound or kill the criminal attacker (and the gun defense wouldn't be called "newsworthy" by newspaper or TV news editors). In 64.2% of these gun-defense cases, the police learned of the defense, which means that the media could also find out and report on them if they chose to.

In 73.4% of these gun-defense incidents, the attacker was a stranger to the intended victim. (Defenses against a family member or intimate were rare -- well under 10%.) This disproves the myth that a gun kept for defense will most likely be used against a family member or someone you love.

In over half of these gun defense incidents, the defender was facing two or more attackers -- and three or more attackers in over a quarter of these cases. (No means of defense other than a firearm -- martial arts, pepper spray, or stun guns -- gives a potential victim a decent chance of getting away uninjured when facing multiple attackers.)

In 79.7% of these gun defenses, the defender used a concealable handgun. A quarter of the gun defenses occured in places away from the defender's home.

Source: "Armed Resistance to Crime: The Prevalence and Nature of Self-Defense with a Gun," by Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz, in The Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, Northwestern University School of Law, Volume 86, Number 1, Fall, 1995

The most staggering part of all of this information resides with the fact that were it not for Americans protecting themselves, there would be millions of crimes a year added to the already impressive total, thousands of deaths, and the need for quadruple the law enforcement "protection" we now enjoy.

Think of it; 4 times as many cops. At least two times as many police stations with the obligatory vehicles and logistics necessary to fend off wave after wave of criminal activity. And let's not even begin to imagine how very many more hospitals and other emergency first-responders would be needed.

We are the most violent nation on earth, nobody else even comes close. The crime stats the FBI provides are meaningless to a certain degree, in that they do not take into account the prevention of crimes. Prevention accomplished by the armed citizen.

And who is perpetrating all of these criminal acts? More than 85% are minorities and/or illegal aliens. This is one of the reasons why Europe as we now know it is doomed. THEIR citizens have been disarmed and it's only a matter of time before Euro minorities turn the Continent into a living hell.