NPR asks: Does Carrying A Pistol Make You Safer?
Right here. Make me safer? Maybe. Maybe not. Make the country safer? Yes.
5 Responses to “NPR asks: Does Carrying A Pistol Make You Safer?”
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April 12th, 2016 at 7:23 pm
It’s like using a seatbelt; I’m safer with it than without it.
April 12th, 2016 at 8:45 pm
In the same, single sentence the author states that he is puzzled by the increase in armed folks and the falling crime rate. I am however, puzzled by his missing the correlation.
April 12th, 2016 at 10:00 pm
Fred, over at Best of The Web, that’s a daily feature called “Fox Butterfield, Is That You?”
They’re confusing “despite” with “because.”
April 12th, 2016 at 11:09 pm
My wife asked me why I was wearing a gun inside the house. I said, “For Decepticons”. She laughed. I laughed. The toaster laughed.
April 13th, 2016 at 10:00 am
It isn’t “carrying a pistol” that makes one safer. There are risks inherent with keeping a dangerous tool on one’s body.
However, I’d argue that keeping that dangerous tool within close reach should, and usually does, increase both safe behaviors and situational awareness by the carrier, both of which actions increase safety, even without the use of the carried pistol.
Having a pistol immediately to hand when one is needed RIGHT DAMN NOW might, maybe, make one safer through its display to an assailant or its attempted use.
NOT having a firearm when faced with violent criminal attack is definitely, irrefutably, statistically, scientifically, correlated with worse outcomes from the attack.
So if PBS came up with any answer other than “YES” they are, well, wrong.