So, what is Granny supposed to do? Sneeze at her antagonist and hope that will stop him? Holler "help! help!" and wait for the police to arrive? Use a squirt gun?
Years ago there were a whole lot of cowboy shows on TV. Often there were gunfights where gunfighters faced each other on the street. Whoever was the fastest draw and the best shot was the winner. There are still scenes and shows of gunfights being portrayed in different cities in America for show.
Now imagine in one of those shows that the good, law-abiding guy didn't have a gun because of gun control. He is out there on the street in a gun-drawing stance, but doesn't have a gun. The bad guy has a gun, because he is a bad guy.
You are kinda ignorant, aren't you. Granny may not have a chance under any circumstances. But she has far less of a chance if she has no gun. If she only wounds her assailant before she dies, it's much easier for any witness to pick the guy out from the line-up. Granny has a far better chance with a gun, and with a gun she is helping all the innocent people who are attacked, by example, even if she dies.
The most ignorant people are gun nuts who equate having a gun as having a chance at survival, this is nonsense based on lies gun companies feed you this a GOOD PERSON WITH A GUN SAVES INNOCENT PEOPLE. You live in some make believe world where everyone is carrying a gun on their hip to protect their lives. The real danger with many guns end up as a cost on small children, family members, and other members of their community thru rage and carelessness rather than danger caused by a thug.
Again it all goes back to fear, you think you live in a world where this granny is constantly looking around for someone to attack her so shes ready to point her gun at anyone who looks threatening to her and she will help all the innocent people who are attacked. How the hell is a granny going to differentiate in a gun fight who is right and who is wrong? OMG someone is coming near me, let me shoot and wound him first.
And how often does this Granny shoot an attacker scenario happen? The Granny thing was an example. it happens a whole lot in real life with people other than Granny. If everyone wore a gun on his/her hip in public, once people became used to it, crime would virtually disappear.
In 2012 Violence Policy Center released a fresh analysis of federal crime and health data that explores how often potential victims actually turned the tables. Parsing 2012 numbers, the center counted 259 justifiable gun-related homicides, or incidents in which authorities ruled that killings occurred in self-defense.
That's in a nation in which there are some 300 million firearms. In 2012, there were 1.2 million violent crimes, defined as murder, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault. Or, put another way, 1.2
million scenarios in which there was potential for someone to kill in self-defense.
BUT who cares about some #FAKENEWS stats from liberal research center. Just keep buying guns, look over your shoulders at every turn, pack more guns the older you get, they are out to GET YOU!!!
First you quote some statistics. Then you call it fake news? No wonder you are having trouble seeing the benefit of Guns.
All the statistics are skewed with regard to what they would be if we had a nation of hip gun carriers. Why? Because we haven't seen this for over 100 years, and the statistics back then weren't clear, and wouldn't fit today if they were.
Statistics mean nothing until the whole nation wears guns on their hips in public for at least 5 years.