…who can you trust, right?
A friend pointed the FBI Crime Clock to me. For those into statistics, give it a look. Some of the data:
Every 22.1 seconds One Violent Crime in America.Every 35.3 seconds One Aggravated Assault.
Every 1.2 minutes One Robbery.
Every 5.5 minutes One Forcible Rape.
Every 32.4 minutes One Murder.
Every 3.0 seconds One Property Crime.
Pretty scary, huh? Just like those “every 3 seconds, a cop-killing assault rifle kills twenty innocent preschoolers” slogans the left likes the throw around. (It’s a lovely testament to the liberal mindset in this country that supposedly “educated” people never fact-check or question the “statistics” they’re fed) The only difference is that these numbers are real, verifiable, and hey, they’re from the government, right?
Now let’s take the Lott/Kleck average of 2.5 million civilian defensive uses of a firearm per year and break it down:
Every day, 6849.3 uses.Every hour, 285.4 uses.
Every minute, 4.76 uses.
That’s once every 12 seconds that a gun saves someone from a crime.
Oh, and for those who prefer to go with the questionable numbers that the various Brady groups post, it’s still 1.45 times every minute (760,000/365/24/60).
These numbers are for 2002, in which the FBI only lists 225 justifiable civilian homicides. That means that civilians are only “gunning down” the bad guys 0.009% of the time. Pretty admirable restraint and control, I’d say. Certainly not the “blood in the streets” argument we hear from the left.
Yet another cogent argument that civilian gun ownership has a verifiable positive social effect. I don’t know why, but seeing a picture of Hillary Clinton on the front page of USA Today with the headline, “Is she electable?” made me want to post this.