ManusJustus said:
Guns in your home make you safer, especially if you have an early warning of an instrusion. On the streets however, if someone pulls a gun on you, having a gun in around your waist or in your glove compartment wont do you much good. Clearly the criminal has the upper hand in these situations. When someone comes up to your car windown and demands the car, reaching for your gun while a gun is pointed at you is not a good decision. |
And yet... studies other then this one (which do exist) don't bear that out.
There have been two conflicting studies on the matter... however the one that says guns don't prevent violence are ones that require you be shot or hit before they consider it "warding off an attack."
The important things with studies like these is to narrow it down to shootings in particular areas. Smaller then even just a city.
