What is the purpose of "Universal" in proposals for "Universal Background Checks"?
Is there a common-sensible way to examine statistics of carnage pertinent to the ongoing proposals for "universal" background checks. Yes, but it requires patience.
Let's examine the views of pro-gun-control advocates on the issue of "Universal Background Checks" -- They say: It's time to say "Enough." End this Carnage. Universal Background Checks must be required regardless of the mode of acquisition-- No exceptions, no loopholes and regardless of whether acquisition is by purchase from a retail store, dealer, or distributor or from a wholesaler or private club or organization or by gift from a relative, friend, father, mother, daughter, son, neighbor, domestic partner or spouse. The statistics are grim -- year-in and year out. Watch the video. Pay attention to the statistics. Go to http://PoliSat.Com/Universal-Background-Check.htm.
**A Federal NIH study concluded that firearms were lawfully used in 497,646 instances by homeowners to deter crime in 1994. Those totals reflected only such defensive/preventive use of firearms at home and did not include such lawful uses elsewhere by citizens. A number of subsequent, college-research studies placed the number far higher and included not only lawful uses at home by the firearm owner but also lawful uses elsewhere to either deter, prevent, or stop violent crimes in progress or save lives or both. Desiring to understate, rather than to risk overstating, the annual number of such lawful, defensive/life-saving uses of firearms, not only did I avoid using the probably-more-accurate, much higher numbers found in the post-1994 studies, but I went even further by using 240,000, which is less than half the number reported by the government in 1994 as an annual figure.
Is It More or Less Dangerous to Women for Them to Be Armed With a Gun?
"For every 1 woman using a gun for self-defense, 101 were killed with a gun."
self-defense, 89 are killed with an gun by an intimate acquaintance."
proves the opposite of the position for which they spout it.