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www.cato.org/pubs/wtpapers/WP-Tough-Targets.pdf.

This is absolutely a MUST READ for Every American Citizen!!!

All 2A’ers need to read this report!

There is a lot of information in all 234 referenced footnotes as well.

EXCERPT form Executive Summary:

“This paper uses a collection of news reports of self-defense with guns over an eight-year period to survey the circumstances and outcomes of defensive gun uses in America.

Federal and state lawmakers often oppose repealing or amending laws governing the ownership or carrying of guns. That opposition is typically based on assumptions that the average citizen is incapable of successfully employing a gun in self-defense or that possession of a gun in public will tempt people to violence in “road rage” or other contentious situations. Those assumptions are false. The vast majority of gun owners are ethical and competent. That means tens of thousands of crimes are prevented each year by ordinary citizens with guns.”

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