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The Post's Matt Zapotosky is reporting that a woman was held at gunpoint in her home in Oxon Hill this morning during a home-invasion robbery perpetrated by three men. The men, at least one wearing a mask and two said to be armed with guns, broke into the woman's apartment in the 1400 block of Southern Ave., just across the street from the District border, at about 8 a.m. this morning. The report notes that the suspects are believed to have fled in a gray or blue Dodge Magnum.
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Molly!
Exactly!! That was the comment I was thinking of.
exactly. if only she had woken up, got her gun, stood by the door in anticipation of this moment, and not moved a muscle for a few hours. she could have shot these guys!
oh well, missed opportunity!
(and, BTW, since she was in MD, not DC, your usual comments don't really apply)
Yes, because in your world, defensive use of guns never never happens. Good thing this 70 year old didn't know that.
http://www.kmox.com/Great-grandmother-shoots-area-man-during-Columbus-/5511999
Or this woman
http://www.oregonlive.com/washingtoncounty/index.ssf/2009/10/transient_broke_into_womans_fo.html
alright, you found a couple examples. anecdotes are cute, but how about solid statistics. how many home invasions in the last year were not stopped by people with guns in the house?
Yeah, they were anecdotes, but I was just trying to show that you don't have to be standing by the door armed to repel someone.
In general it is estimated that guns are used defensively 80,000 times a year (low end of a DoJ study). The high end of other studies is 2.5 million times a year-but I don't buy that. That study had some issues.
As to your question. Let's give you the benefit of the doubt and say that even if you had a gun, your chances of stopping a home invasion were 1 in 100. Well, without a gun, they are probably 0 in 100.
No one is saying firearm ownership is a panacea, it just changes the odds.
how many home invasions in the last year were not stopped by people with guns in the house?
Does the Bureau of Labor Statistics even keep that kind of data?
i feel like the NRA might...