Reply #27: The problem with that is that often firearms are used for self defense ... [View All]

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without anyone being shot and consequently these incidents never make the news and you would view them as anecdotal tales.

When an intruder, a mugger or a rapist is shot, the story does make the news but such incidents are fortunately far rarer than the majority of times when a firearm is used in legitimate self defense but no shots are fired.

However we often read of people who were severely injured or killed by a physical attack or by a person armed with a weapon that was not a firearm.