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Does Gun Control Work?


GUN LAWS OF FRANCE

In France, to buy a firearm, a hunting licence or a shooting sport license is necessary. All semi-automatic rifles with a capacity greater than 3 rounds, all handguns and all rifles chambered in 'military' calibres, including bolt action, require permits. These are known as B1, B2 and B4 type permits. Firearms are divided into eight categories that determine the regulations that apply to their possession and use. France also sets limits on the number of cartridges that can be kept at home (1000 rounds per gun).
The total number of firearms owned by an individual is also subject to limits (not possible to have more than 12 authorizations/permits on B1, B2 and B4 type firearms).[98] As of September, 2013, France has a capacity limit of 20 rounds for handguns;[99] one needs a permit for category one[clarification needed] semi-automatics that have a capacity greater than 3 rounds. Fully automatic firearms are illegal for civilian ownership.


Over 150 dead in Paris shootings and bombings

More than 120 people were reported killed in shootings and explosions at six locations around Paris Friday; earlier, French officials said at least 153 people had been killed in attacks at seven locations. The BBC cited French sources that said more than 200 people were injured, including 80 who were critically injured. http://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/665371517102915584 At least 118 ...


So how did “Gun control” work for France when ISIS was evolved ????



GUNS AND CRIME PREVENTION IN UNITED STATES

Myth: Private ownership of guns is not effective in
preventing crime

Fact: Every year, people in the United States use guns to defend themselves against
criminals an estimated 2,500,000 times – more than 6,500 people a day, or once every 13
seconds.113 Of these instances, 15.6% of the people using firearms defensively stated
that they "almost certainly" saved their lives by doing so.
Firearms are used 60 times more often to protect lives than to take lives.

Fact: The number of times per year an American uses a firearm to deter a home invasion
alone is 498,000.114

Fact: In 83.5% (2,087,500) of these successful gun defenses, the attacker either
threatened or used force first, proving that guns are very well suited for self-defense.

Fact: Of the 2,500,000 times citizens use guns todefend themselves, 92% merely brandish their gun
or fire a warning shot to scare off their attackers.

Fact: Less than 8% of the time does a citizen wound his or her attacker, and in less than one in a thousand
instances is the attacker killed.116

Fact: In one local review of firearm homicide, more than 12% were civilian legal defensive homicides.117

Fact: For every accidental death (802), suicide (16,869) or homicide (11,348)118with a firearm (29,019), 13 lives (390,000)119 are preserved through defensive use.

113 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Fall 1995,
114 Estimating intruder-related firearm retrievals in U.S. households, 1994. Robin M. Ikeda , Violence and
Victims, Winter 1997
115 Crime statistics: Bureau of Justice Statistics - National Crime Victimization Survey (2005). DGU
statistics: Targeting Guns, Kleck (average of 15 major surveys where DGUs were reported)
116 Targeting Guns, Kleck, from the National Self-Defense Survey, 1995
117 Death by Gun: One Year Later, Time Magazine, May 14, 1990

Jakebrake Loc: Broomfield, Colorado

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letmedance Loc: Walnut, Ca.

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