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http://www.scribd.com/doc/78800063/Tought-Targets-When-Criminal
Tought Targets: When Criminals Face Armed Resistance from Citizens, Cato
White Paper No. 33
The ostensible purpose of gun control legislation is to reduce firearm
deaths and injuries. The restriction of access to firearms will make
criminals unable to use guns to shoot people. Gun control laws will also
reduce the number of accidental shootings. Those are the desired effects, at
least in theory. It is important, however, for conscientious policymakers
to consider not only the stated goals of gun control regulations, but the
actual results that they produce.
What would be the effect of depriving ordinary, law-abiding citizens from
keeping arms for self-defense? One result seems certain: the law-abiding
would be at a distinct disadvantage should criminals acquire guns from
underground markets. After all, it is simply not possible for police
officers to get to every scene where they are urgently needed.
Outside of criminology circles, relatively few people can reasonably
estimate how often people use guns to fend off criminal attacks. If
policymakers are truly interested in harm reduction, they should pause to
consider how many crimes — murders, rapes, assaults, robberies —
are thwarted each year by ordinary persons with guns. The estimates of
defensive gun use range between the tens of thousands to as high as two
million each year.
This paper uses a collection of news reports of self-defense with guns over
an eight-year period to survey the circumstances and outcomes of defensive
gun uses in America.
Federal and state lawmakers often oppose repealing or amending laws
governing the ownership or carrying of guns. That opposition is typically
based on assumptions that the average citizen is incapable of successfully
employing a gun in self-defense or that possession of a gun in public will
tempt people to violence in "road rage" or other contentious situations.
Those assumptions are false. The vast majority of gun owners are ethical and
competent. That means tens of thousands of crimes are prevented each year
by ordinary citizens with guns. |
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