Reply #94: And what you are suggesting isn't exactly accurate. [View All]

In Texas you can use deadly force to protect property. In lots of other parts of the country if a person breaks into an occupied dwelling the occupant is allowed to assume the worst and shoot that person.

But the most misleading part is suggesting that even a tiny percentage of the girls who get raped are armed. The girls who armed don't get raped. The fact that there is a tiny number of armed women does nothing to the number of women in this giant country who are raped.
The gun matters to the woman who DOESN'T get raped because she is armed. I actually know one 21 girl who falls into that category. She also falls into the very big category of people who tell the bad guys to go away and then don't report the event for fear of getting in trouble. Her case would be added to the defensive use of a hand gun statistic. I personally know of 4 such cases.

And the numbers drastically change if you discount gangsters shooting other gangsters over drugs.

The numbers already look pretty good for our country. If you add the stuff I mentioned it changes a lot more in our favor.