“Some law enforcement analysts say the numbers represent changing attitudes on the streets… and citizens have taken greater responsibility for their own safety.”

No particular spin on that. And taking responsibility for your own safety is an inherently good thing.

Ho hum. Either way, hopefully there’ll be a nice bell-curve of dead human-impersonating oxygen theives which tapers off as they realise the prey bites back.

Alfred Blumstein, a Carnegie Mellon University criminologist, says the gun “legalization movement” also may have helped create a “greater willingness” among citizens to act in self-defense.

The reality seems quite obvious to me. It’s not that people are more willing to use deadly force, it’s that people now have the ability to do so. Obviously, if you look at twenty muggings where the victim is unarmed, and twenty muggings where the victim has a CCW permit, you will probably find that more criminals get shot in the second group. I mean, duh?

Uncle Ted N. VOTE Ted Nugent for President!!!

We should convince them use acronyms for brevity, so when they do a report on defensive gun use, they can simply write (or scream) “DC! BITS! TTLITOH! TP!!!”

We’ve all heard it a gizillion times anyway. What’s the point in repackaging it ever few months? They pop up with this crap like whack-a-moles;
“DC! BITS! TTLITOH! TP!!!”

Yeah, yeah, yeah, and freedom sucks, liberty sucks, human rights suck, the concept of property sucks, men suck, pasty fat rich white guys suck (though they apparently have no problem with pasty fat black rich guys. But, oh yeah– Uncle Toms) the Constitution sucks, America sucks, and it’ll all be the end of us unless we become a police state, the sky is falling, the Earth is melting, Bush/Cheney/Halliburton, 9/11 and Katrina were inside jobs, oil buddies, corporations, yadda yadda yadda….

And how is this a bad thing? Contrary to what the libsheep believe people have the right to defend themselves anytime, anywhere, from anyone who’s a threat to them. If the libsheep dont want to defend themselves that’s fine by me, the fewer libs the better.

…the Supreme Court in June carved out a right to individual gun ownership…

Oh, for pete’s sake. Letter sent.

Sure beats the hell out of a “get shot first” mentality. Better to throw hot lead than to catch it, I always say.

You forget. In the hands of the police, they magically morph into highly accurate and safe “Patrol Rifles”.

More powerful weapons for the police? Perhaps. Quite a few officers are now issues(sic) rifles.

Correction: Quite a few officers are now issued ASSAULT rifles.

Because they’re only good for spray-firing from the hip and killing large numbers of people indiscriminately, right? RIGHT?

It means the law abiding tax payers aren’t going to have to pay for their room, board, and medical care for a period of months or years (aka, prison).

It also means that said goblins aren’t going to commit any more crimes, which will help lower the crime rate in future years.

Finally, as a side bonus, it should, at least in theory, decrease the number of people who vote Democrat. Although corpses in the urban areas where most homicides occur do have a disturbing tendency to vote anyway.