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I grew up in Texas, my Dad has enough guns to fight a small war, most of my neighbors do too, the owner of Target Masters in Dallas lives across from us. My dad, friends, family, and so on didn't lock up the guns, we didn't move the bullets from one place to another. What my parents did do is teach me the proper ways to use a gun, load, clean, handle, hunt and overall be safe and understand guns aren't toys. Being so I learned to hunt and survive on my own, which I 1000000% used in the Marines.
Since 'guns' seem to be killing people, we should get rid of all knives first, since more knives simply sit in a kitchen and are used for jackings, robbery, killings and by mistake, hurting yourself and maybe even another. At that we should quit driving cars since they kill more people than guns. While we are at it why don't we pad the world and take everything away so nobody can ever get hurt on anything.
And for the record.. 25ish other countries have a higher Murder rate than America. So lets see.. Over half of Americans own guns.. YET, less than 50% of the murders and violent crimes have a gun involved.
* Americans use firearms to defend themselves from criminals at least 764,000 times a year. -------> This figure is the lowest among a group of 9 nationwide surveys done by organizations including Gallup and the Los Angeles Times.
* In 1982, a survey of imprisoned criminals found that 34% of them had been "scared off, shot at, wounded or captured by an armed victim. So owning a gun works, saving maybe 34% of the people.
And lets not forget this.. 'registered' firearms have a very very low, sometimes into single digits of 'gun crimes' per state.
Guns are not dangerous people.. Its the idiot holding the gun that is dangerous.
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