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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1380596" data-attributes="member: 12952">Hard Truth for Gun-Control Advocates: Permit Holders Extremely Law-Abiding Individuals employing the “more guns more crime” logic are using shoddy research as the basis for their claim.“If you look at information from the Justice Department, they have something called the National Crime Victimization survey. What you find is that guns are used in crime about 250,000 times a year.” John R. Lott Jr., economist, Yale professor, and president of Crime Prevention Research Center, told Townhall.“If you look at similar surveys of people who use guns defensively, it’s about two million times a year. So basically people are using guns defensively to stop crimes about four to five times more frequently each year than guns are used to commit a crime. Most people don’t realize that.”The truth is that individuals with gun-permits are extremely law-abiding. Less than one percent of licensed firearm holders have had their permits revoked due to misdemeanors.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1380596, member: 12952"] [SIZE=6][B]Hard Truth for Gun-Control Advocates: Permit Holders Extremely Law-Abiding [/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=6][B]Individuals employing the “more guns more crime” logic are using shoddy research as the basis for their claim. “If you look at information from the Justice Department, they have something called the National Crime Victimization survey. What you find is that guns are used in crime about 250,000 times a year.” John R. Lott Jr., economist, Yale professor, and president of [I]Crime Prevention Research Center[/I], told [I]Townhall.[/I] “If you look at similar surveys of people who use guns defensively, it’s about two million times a year. So basically people are using guns defensively to stop crimes about four to five times more frequently each year than guns are used to commit a crime. Most people don’t realize that.” The truth is that individuals with gun-permits are extremely law-abiding. Less than one percent of licensed firearm holders have had their permits revoked due to misdemeanors. [/B][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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