Benedictus84 t1_j9bi45b wrote on February 20, 2023 at 6:37 PM

Reply to comment by WanderingPickles in Union City neighbor shoots man he witnessed stabbing woman by B1Baker

The only time the FBI is mentioned is in a statistic that per every defensive homicide there are 35 criminal homicides.

I wont say Wikipedia is not a source. But this source does not support your claim and is overal quite terrible.

Hawklet98 t1_j9bk7c8 wrote on February 20, 2023 at 6:50 PM

35,000,000 criminal homicides every year? That sounds about right. What, you don’t think 10% of Americans are murdered every year? You must not watch Fox News.

Benedictus84 t1_j9ble4w wrote on February 20, 2023 at 6:58 PM

To be fair, they didn't say there were a million defensive homicides per year. Just a million instances of defensive gun use.

Hawklet98 t1_j9bqfoz wrote on February 20, 2023 at 7:31 PM

Are they counting defensive pistol whippings?

Benedictus84 t1_j9bs4do wrote on February 20, 2023 at 7:42 PM

Not sure, it is a terrible source.

WanderingPickles t1_j9bj03b wrote on February 20, 2023 at 6:43 PM

Look up the other sources. Additionally, look deeper; the overwhelming majority of defensive incidents do not result in someone’s death.

Benedictus84 t1_j9bkyie wrote on February 20, 2023 at 6:55 PM

Your claim is not supported by your source. That's all i am saying. There is no other mentioning about the FBI in your source. I understand that the majority of defensive incidents do not result in someone's death. I am not debating that.

Why do i have to spoon feed you all of this?

You can pick any of the sources cited by the Wikipedia article and i would bet none of them state it happens about a million times every year per the FBI.