In a post somewhere else someone said that martial talk is about martial arts and didn't understand why people would talk about guns...well, guns are in fact the tool of one of the most effective martial arts in the world, defensive pistol and rifle shooting, and so deserve an honored place in any martial,arts forum...unless of course you put the limit of "unarmed" in the category...
Why are they one of the best self defense weapons available to a martial artist...
Well, criminals use guns on average 11,000 times a year in he U.S. To commit murder...that is the average from the CDC, and considering they can actually count the bodies...it should be a fairly accurate number.
On average, law abiding citizens with legally owned and in many cases, carried guns, save lives over 100,000 times a year. Now these self defense cases are in the real world, in actual violent encounters which are life or death situations and the criminal is actually shot, killed or captured.
Now this number itself comes from groups who are opposed to people owning and carrying guns, I only point this out to point out that this number is a low count of how many times guns are used to save lives in actual fights. It is low because in most cases of self defense with a gun, the gun is not pulled out if the holster, it is displayed as a warning, or if it is pulled, no shots are fired. Because no one is killed or injured, there is no number that can be plugged into a statistic on gun use. that is why 100,000 lives saved by guns is a low number, and is actually much higher.
Also keep in mind that the number is low because you can't count crimes that never happen...for example...each criminal of the 100,000 that is stopped from attacking a victim who uses a gun, who is shot or captured by the victim, is stopped from creating more victims...on a temporary or more permanent basis...so again, the 100,000 lives saved using a gun is also low due to that fact in counting numbers...
How can we get an idea of how that works...there is a case where a woman with a concealed carry permit wasn't allowed to carry her gun on a college campus...she was raped at gun point 50 feet away from the college police station. She told people that during the attack she could have stopped the attacker if she had had a gun...she was also a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. this rapist went on to rape 3 more women and he murderd the third victim...that is why the 100,000 number is so low...if she had stopped the attacker with her gun three other lives would have been saved, first, from the trauma of violent rape and in the one case from actual,murder.
Think about that for a minute... Innocent, law abiding people, often times with little or no regular training, who may be small in size, elderly, facing a younger, stronger, more violent attacker, or outnumbered, or attacked from an ambush...still manage to stop attacks 100,000 times a year.
11,000 murders vs. 100,000 or more lives saved per year....in real world violent criminal attacks...what other unarmed martial art has that record in successful use...
That is why guns should always have a place in a martial arts forum...they and the arts that teach their use are one of the most effective real world martial arts that exist.
Why are they one of the best self defense weapons available to a martial artist...
Well, criminals use guns on average 11,000 times a year in he U.S. To commit murder...that is the average from the CDC, and considering they can actually count the bodies...it should be a fairly accurate number.
On average, law abiding citizens with legally owned and in many cases, carried guns, save lives over 100,000 times a year. Now these self defense cases are in the real world, in actual violent encounters which are life or death situations and the criminal is actually shot, killed or captured.
Now this number itself comes from groups who are opposed to people owning and carrying guns, I only point this out to point out that this number is a low count of how many times guns are used to save lives in actual fights. It is low because in most cases of self defense with a gun, the gun is not pulled out if the holster, it is displayed as a warning, or if it is pulled, no shots are fired. Because no one is killed or injured, there is no number that can be plugged into a statistic on gun use. that is why 100,000 lives saved by guns is a low number, and is actually much higher.
Also keep in mind that the number is low because you can't count crimes that never happen...for example...each criminal of the 100,000 that is stopped from attacking a victim who uses a gun, who is shot or captured by the victim, is stopped from creating more victims...on a temporary or more permanent basis...so again, the 100,000 lives saved using a gun is also low due to that fact in counting numbers...
How can we get an idea of how that works...there is a case where a woman with a concealed carry permit wasn't allowed to carry her gun on a college campus...she was raped at gun point 50 feet away from the college police station. She told people that during the attack she could have stopped the attacker if she had had a gun...she was also a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. this rapist went on to rape 3 more women and he murderd the third victim...that is why the 100,000 number is so low...if she had stopped the attacker with her gun three other lives would have been saved, first, from the trauma of violent rape and in the one case from actual,murder.
Think about that for a minute... Innocent, law abiding people, often times with little or no regular training, who may be small in size, elderly, facing a younger, stronger, more violent attacker, or outnumbered, or attacked from an ambush...still manage to stop attacks 100,000 times a year.
11,000 murders vs. 100,000 or more lives saved per year....in real world violent criminal attacks...what other unarmed martial art has that record in successful use...
That is why guns should always have a place in a martial arts forum...they and the arts that teach their use are one of the most effective real world martial arts that exist.