Reply #26: Do you really think it helps your case to keep making false statements?

[DanTex]

That's not what the study found at all, you are completely mistaken. In fact, the possibility that high-risk behaviors or occupations could make people more likely to carry a gun was controlled for, and the study found an increased risk of getting shot above and beyond any confounding effect of these and other factors.

But what's interesting is that so many people persist with these plainly false statements. Yes, I know that you find this stuff all over the gun blogs, so maybe you're just repeating talking points. But to me it actually demonstrates that you have hit a wall, so to speak, and have nothing coherent to say. After all, I assume you wouldn't choose to say obviously incorrect things if you could instead make some factual or logical point. Or would you?

More important, do you actually object to my original point? That self-reported DGUs are not what ultimately matters. What matters is whether a gun actually makes people safer, which is measured not by how many DGUs people claim, but by whether people who own or carry guns actually experience a reduction in the harm due to crime victimization.