More Guns, More Unintended Consequences
marginalrevolution.com
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Guns are successfully used by potential victims for self defense more than 50,000 times per year in the US.
Do you have a source handy that can refute either the data, analysis, or conclusions of that study?
Or maybe your source includes other gun crime besides just homicide and suicide, which were the only events included in the study from what I can tell
Unfortunately police do violent no-knock raids and murder people regardless of whether or not the person has guns or a history of violence.
My assumption is that it typically goes about as well for them as if the police tried to kill them and they weren't armed, at 'best' they take someone down with them, but feel free to prove me wrong.
People arguing your point love to bring up Afghanistan and Vietnam like the state of those countries during their respective wars was something other than abysmally horrific with a massive scale of death and destruction. Imagine if a similar level of conflict occurred in just one region of the US. Further, what is the state of those countries post war? Comparable to the US? They also seem reluctant to acknowledge that the existence of citizen-combatants in both of those countries are a contributing reason to the extensive murder of noncombatant civilians by the US army in those areas. Ie, because the guerilla warfare was so extensive the larger military was more willing to engage in broader targeting of the citizenry. Any reason you think this wouldn't happen in the US if we assume a rogue US military?