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jazzhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-10 12:24 AM
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19. If you want to honesty attempt to refute the points made

by Dr. Suter, we can have a discussion. Dismissing Suter's points based on the particularly webpage where they were posted is dishonest on it's face.

Regarding Kellerman's willful dishonesty, I believe this pretty much sums it up:

The true measure of the protective benefits of guns are the lives saved, the injuries prevented, the medical costs saved, and the property protected -- not the burglar or rapist body count. Since only 0.1% to 0.2% of defensive gun usage involves the death of the criminal, <10> any study, such as this, that counts criminal deaths as the only measure of the protective benefits of guns will expectedly underestimate the benefits of firearms by a factor of 500 to 1,000.
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