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Originally Posted by DanaC
I heard a statistic that suggests that the person most likely to end up shot is the one who brought the gun to the fight .
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Anti-gun people love statistics. Most of them are either wrong or badly put together.
For example such a number would be easy to phony up if you counted police officers in weapons retention incidents...who obviously did "bring the gun to the fight". (It's sad, but police officers can be the absolute worst at firearms skill and safety. Many of them practice concientiously and observe all the safety rules...and some do not, perhaps because they consider themselves above laws and rules--witness the DEA undercover in the link I posted earlier.)
The famous "more likely to shoot someone in your own household" was created by counting suicides as "someone in your own household".
Gun Facts is a fantastic source of information. For example, appropos of what you "heard somewhere", on page 46 we read:
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Originally Posted by Gun Facts
Myth: You are more likely to be injured or killed using a gun for self-defense
Fact: You are far more likely to survive a violent assault if you defend yourself with a gun. In episodes where a robbery victim was injured, the injury/defense rates were:
Resisting with a gun 6%
Did nothing at all 25%
Resisted with a knife 40%
Non-violent resistance 45%
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These numbers are from the UK Home Office, of all places...perhaps they were pushing an anti-knife law at the time. :-)