BamaD
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ORIGINAL: BamaD I have cited them so many times that if you actually had paid attention to them you would have it memorized by now, and the FBI is not a right wing gun obssesed group. I don't read the majority of your posts you fucking moron and if you had anything credible you would've cited it already. My guess it's been comprehensively debunked which is why you dare not cite it now. Google will not send me to the study itself however. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/9/17/1238623/-Defensive-Gun-Use-The-CDC-Report-on-Gun-Violence And you didn't give the report, just the parts you wanted us to see. Besides your source, by their own admission, basis caclulations of crimes not repoerted. In other words they make it up. Not really, Bama. The crimes "not reported" are crimes that weren't reported to the police. The NCVS is based on interviews of a large swath of people. Just because a crime wasn't reported to the police doesn't mean it didn't happen. For instance, I had 2 grape vines (still in their retail pots; was going to plant them the next day) and two spare tires (one had a damaged rim, so it didn't matter, and the other fit a previous vehicle, so it didn't matter, either) stolen from my property. There were tire tracks in my yard, so I knew someone had driven through the grass in the back yard, and those 4 things were gone. Was I going to report that to the cops? WTF would they have been able to do? They were stolen some time between 4pm one day, and 4 pm the next. Since I left for work when it was dark out, I wouldn't have noticed the missing items or vehicle tracks in the lawn. I was out $20 for the 2 plants? That crime wasn't reported, but it certainly did happen. Had I been surveyed, I probably would have mentioned it. Some people don't report crimes because they're embarrassed or afraid. The UCR is compiled from police reports. It can't capture crimes that were committed, but weren't reported. The NCVS compiles data from interviews, so it might capture crimes not reported to the police. I am aware of that. Crimes happen that are not reported to the police, however just as the dgus that aren't reported are refered to as an estimate, those should also not be considered hard facts, more reliable than numbers taken from actual reports,. This is why I refer to .5 m dgus at least with a perhaps as many as (accoridng to cdc) 3 m. It seems from this report that the FBI puts the number at over 1m. That seems far more reliable that the estimations of unreported crimes, and their number of just 59,000 (more recent than his 108,000) is just rediculous.
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Government ranges from a necessary evil to an intolerable one. Thomas Paine People don't believe they can defend themselves because they have guns, they have guns because they believe they can defend themselves.
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