How many victims were unarmed and NOT ready to defend themselves?

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY!!

I have been making it a point to read every internet news articlewhere someonehas beenwounded or killed by the illegal use of a firearm.

One question keeps coming to mind:

HOW MANY OF THE VICTIMS WERE ARMED AND READY TO DEFEND THEMSELVES WHEN CONFRONTED BY A FIREARM IN THE HANDS OF A CRIMINAL?

THE PERCENTAGE OF VICTIMS WHO WERE UNARMED AT THE TIME THEY WERE CONFRONTED MUST BE ASTRONOMICAL.

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Yep, all thanks to the government... helping criminals by disarming or infringing the RKBA away from their victims.

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Discounting armed members of Law Enforcement,self inflicted gun shots, and gang bangers, the number would definitely be near 100%.

Somebody should ask the Brady Campaign or the FBI/Jusiice Departmentto do the math and publish the numbers for all to see.

I'm no wiz kid with numbers, but believe that a substantial number/percentage of those injured or killed by illegal firearms would be alive today if they were ARMED and READY when confronted.

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I don't see this discussed much, but I wonder if the tradgedy of 911 would have happened if the passengers were armed. I'm thinking that the hijackers would have thought differently about hijacking a plane full of armed passeners.

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Very good point and observation Ed. I too would like to see those numbers. I also agree the number would be very close to 100%. By contrast, I betthe number who were armed and ready and successfully defended themselves is also very high if not close to 100%.

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Edward Peruta wrote:

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY!!

I have been making it a point to read every internet news article where someone has been wounded or killed by the illegal use of a firearm.

One question keeps coming to mind:

HOW MANY OF THE VICTIMS WERE ARMED AND READY TO DEFEND THEMSELVES WHEN CONFRONTED BY A FIREARM IN THE HANDS OF A CRIMINAL?

THE PERCENTAGE OF VICTIMS WHO WERE UNARMED AT THE TIME THEY WERE CONFRONTED MUST BE ASTRONOMICAL.

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I've been in a robbery situation where a gun wouldn't do me one darn bit of good. Aside from that one, I can think of two occasions off hand where I'm one lucky bugger to be alive and having a gun would have greatly reduced the risk I faced. So with n=1, you can anecdotally take the defense scenarios where a gun would be useless and multiply it by 2 to get the number of scenarios where a gun could be the life saving difference.