Quote (Kamikizzle @ Jun 20 2013 04:26pm)
i do not know this percentage, but if you do please feel free to post it.
postulating the ratio is low, i have 2 responses:
first, the picture we started with is demonizing gun buybacks, to which my response is this: gun buy backs reduce the number of guns in circulation which, in all likelyhood, lowers accidental / inappropriate firearm fatality. just because the ratio of these occurances to violent gun crime might be low, does not mean it is inconsequential; innocent lives are spared due to the voluntary sale and removal of firearms. i find it hard to believe that the last sentence needed to be said.
on a side note, it would be interesting to see the ratio of these occurances to the ratio of instances where firearms have saved citizens from violent crime because they were armed, thought with cases like zimmerman i imagine it would be murky at best.
second, the firearms used in violent crime have to come from somewhere. i find it hard to believe a majority of weapons used in violent crime are legally obtained from the local outdoorsman shop, though if you have a statistic to shed some light on this issue, i encourage you to post it.
in gun friendly Texas the number of
legal gun owners is 0.1884% and the most common law broken was carrying without a license by a licensed person
http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/rsd/chl/reports/convrates.htm