• SupraMario@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    This is sooo false it’s not even funny. There are way more DGUs than there are not.

    And like it or not most mass shootings are stopped by someone with a firearm.

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      19 hours ago

      There are way more DGUs than there are not.

      I think this is a pretty gigantic citation needed here. I couldn’t find anything supporting this assertion but plenty of material showing the opposite.

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        18 hours ago

        Before the CDC took it off the site, they had reference to an estimated 500-2.5mil DGUs a year. DGUs are hard to estimate because a dgu can be as simple as presenting the firearm to a would be attacker and the attacker leaving the victim(s) alone. Most people don’t call the police because of this.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      1 day ago

      DGU. I didn’t know they invented an initialism at the rallies.

      most mass shootings are stopped by

      …the perp taking his own life.