For Each 1 Gun Death, Brazilians Own 3 Guns, Americans Own 1192 - Which Country is Safer?

Stats also show there are 8 TIMES MORE crimes stopped by gun owners than not - which is not reported by the MSM as it doesn't fit their narrative

May 25, 2022

A 2017 shooting in a Sutherland Springs, Texas church was carried out by a person who was dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Army.

As such, he lost his right to own a gun – at the time of the publishing of this story, it appears he most likely stole the one he used or gained from the black market.

At the time of the shooting, Texas had a concealed carry weapons permit status (CCW), however, churches are exempt and gun owners are not permitted to carry inside a church.

As of Sept. 1, 2021, permitless concealed carry and open carry is legal for anyone at least 21 years old who may lawfully possess a handgun.

Whenever there is a ‘gun-free zone’, essentially it creates a gun-free zone only for law-abiding people.

Even if they have their arms stored in their car, they are still without their guns within the 4 walls of the church or any other building designated as a ‘gun-free zone’.

One does not need to search too far to see —

most gun attacks occur
anywhere there are gun-free zones or
anywhere there are gun control laws

One of the measures for gun deaths most often overlooked is the reasons for using a gun in the first place - in Texas, where gun laws are very relaxed, there are a lot of illegal immigrants and cartel members meeting their maker for trespassing, breaking and entering, and commandeering (such as carjacking). The stats mostly focus only on deaths and not the why.

The perpetrator in the Texas church attack was subsequently chased down by a church member who maintained his weapon in his car - imagine if the Texas laws today had been in play in 2017.

Wherever there is a gun-free zone in any country - whether at a local, regional, or state level - evil provocateurs know they can create a lot of damage and deaths and they are, for the most part, capable of performing their evil deeds and then escaping.

Most are usually captured, however, this does not bother them as in their minds they have already won their prize.

Chicago, California, Washington, Oregon, and New York do not permit guns, they also have the highest

number of deaths per 100,000 in the country
levels of crime in all categories

They also keep failing to learn (or are pretending not to know) for decades that one cannot legislate evil out of existence.

Wherever there are permits to carry guns, whether, at a local, regional, or state level, evil perpetrators know they will not be very successful in creating a lot of damage if any, nor is killing too many if any, these areas also have the lowest levels of crime in all categories – proving for decades that one can be their own first line of defense successfully.

The average response time by others carrying guns legally to a shooting situation is less than 5 seconds…

The average response time in a metropolitan area by law enforcement where guns are not permitted is 8 to 10 minutes…

In suburban areas, this moves up to 30 minutes…

In farmlands, quite literally - hours…

Does not take a rocket scientist to see that self-protection is your first line of defense, the police are second (though you should surrender your stance upon their arrival to minimize confusion and permit them to establish control of the situation)…

More statistics —

The number of guns per 100,000 people (2019)
U.S.A.: 120,000
Brazil: 8,000
The number of deaths per 100,000 people (2019)
U.S.A.: 4
Brazil: 23 (this number was overstated in the previous archive of this post)

Graphic Presentation Of Deaths Per Gun

Based on the above statistics, per 100,000 people (in 2019)…

Brazil: 1 death per 347 guns owned

USA: 1 death per 30,000 guns owned

We don’t need a graph to drive home this point, the numbers speak for themselves.

Here is another stat kept by Sheriffs and Law Enforcement -

for every 1 encounter of a person with a gun having ill-intent, there are 8 encounters by gun owners who have stopped a crime…

This is why law enforcement says they are not your first one of defense - you are!

Response Time for Law Enforcement

Here are 10 major US cities and their average response time, ranked best to worst:

Chicago: 3.46 minutes
Los Angeles: 5.7 minutes
Seattle: 7 minutes
Dallas: 8 minutes
Miami: 8 minutes
New York City: 9.1 minutes
Atlanta: 9.5 minutes
Houston: 10 minutes
Detroit: 12 minutes
Denver: 13 minutes

In urban areas, those minutes skyrocket as there is a much larger area to be covered per LEO employee.

The time it takes for a gun-carrying citizen to respond is less than 4 seconds…

It is interesting to observe that no matter how many gun-carrying criminals are involved in one event, it only takes one legal gun-carrying citizen to send them ALL scurrying away - they have no idea if only one person is shooting or several people will be shooting shortly after the first shot.

Something Else to Consider

The year 2016 saw 277 justifiable homicide cases (source: FBI) – an evil person with a gun being shot by a good person with a gun.

That is more than 5 a week — how many of these do we even hear about in a month?

From a comment by one ‘newtphallanx’ to an archived LA Times opinion piece “Gun and self-defense statistics that might surprise you — and the NRA” by Scott Martell, where Scott declares that “the sea of guns in which we live causes exponentially more danger and harm than good” (spelling corrections, bold and italicized print are ours for emphasis)…

The only number you cite is justified homicides, which seems to be a pretty poor metric of how people can defend themselves from attackers / burgl[a]rs / whatever. Far more often is the simple fact of having the gun and letting them know you have it is enough to scare them off, and when that doesn’t work people are injured far more often than they are killed. The numbers you do touch on for that aren’t substantiated and show how they’re better than the NRA statistics, and 67,000 prevented burglaries and violent attacks is huge, 8 times larger than the number of homicides with a gun. Also, using suicide numbers is really dumb. They have nothing to do with self-defense. Also, the 1.2 million number you cite about how many people had a chance to kill in self-defense includes people who don’t carry, who, for all we know, maybe far more likely to experience a crime like that because they don’t carry. Accidental deaths are probably easier to ascribe to people like you, who have probably barely touched a gun in their life, and who haven’t taught themselves or their family gun safety. So the conclusion we can draw is that having a gun is very good for preventing crime against yourself and your property and far outweighs the negatives that you talk about. And either way, taking someone’s right to obtain what they need to defend themselves away is immoral and unconstitutional.

Highest Rates of Violent Gun Death (Homicides) per 100k residents in 2019

El Salvador 36.16 (1)
Venezuela 36.06
Guatemala 32.58
Colombia 25.16
US Virgin Islands 23.46
Brazil 22.72
Puerto Rico 20.89
Bahamas 19.75
Belize 19.68
Honduras 19.43

(1) quickly descending as a result of President Bukele’s policies on violent crime; 2023 saw the lowest crime rate in their history of 2.4 per 100,000 inhabitants, which was 50.4 in 2018, the year before he took over, and 103.0 at its highest in 2015

Consideration for Countries With Gun Control

Drill down into primary source documents of the history of homicide rates before and after guns were confiscated from the people, especially in how the deaths were implemented - such as blunt instruments, knives, etc. Let us know if you see any evidence of that either remaining stable or decreasing, be sure to provide the links as well. We’ll share those results if any are discovered. Truthfully, we won’t be holding our breath on this one…

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originally posted 13-November-2017 in DecisiveLiberty.News [archive]

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