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in chattanooga, tennessee, sunday morning, two people were shot and killed and at least 14 others wounded near a downtown night club. i m tired of standing in front of you talking about guns and bodies as if there are families whose lives have been shattered forever because once again we had people deciding to resolve their issues with firearms. another shooting overnight at a bar, this one in mess a, arizona. that left two people dead and two more injured. saturday night, at least three people were killed and 11 others injured in a shooting in philadelphia. police say several gun men fired into a crowd there. we re absolutely devastated, devastated by this incident. and we mourn the lives lost and the dozens and dozens of lives affected by this tragedy. that s not all. a drive-by shooting at a graduation party in south carolina left one woman dead and eight people injured, including a child. police say they have recovered about 60 shell casings from the scene ....
I doubt there’s a more maligned character in the debate over gun rights than Dr. John Lott. Just ask any gun control activist. They can’t stand him. His research often refutes their favo. ....
Separate facts from fiction. what have you found? so, this is a really hard number to pin down because police do not track this as a stand-alone stand-alone category. that gives rise to contentious debate. gun activists like to say there are 2 1/2 million defenses of gun use which includes brandishing or self-defense shooting. academics find a lot of problems with those figures, and they tend to rely on a survey of crime victims that s done by the federal government twice a year. so it s really recent. according to that survey, there are 70,000 incidents of defensive gun use every year. again, that just includes brandishing or shooting. but gun rights activists like to say there is more defensive gun use than gun crime. i got to the bottom of that number, too. and according to this government survey that dropped in april, this very little noticed data drop, there are seven times more gun crimes than instances of defensive gun use in america every year. the defensive gun use you say ....