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Originally Posted by J. Falcon
I am not disappearing and as far as I know you have no proof of anything. Whatever so called "proof" you can pull out I can find a lot more in my favor. There is no "proof" that guns in the hands of citizens help prevent crime. In fact, I am pretty sure that having a gun increases the possibility of being shot and killed.
http://www.newscientist.com
http://www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=11186055
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Having a gun increases your risk of suicide?
I'd rather you kill yourself with your gun than drive into a carload of people..
There could be some merit to this, you know, it is alot easier to off yourself with a loaded pistol sitting on the table. But is that supposed to be a problem for the rest of us? You decided to kill yourself, and your will was done. That, to me, is alot better than an innocent man or woman or children being taken by someone when the last thing that they wanted was death.
1/5 children killed with firearms were not intentionally killed.. alright.. I do not see the point of that.. It doesn't tell me how many kids were killed, what type of shootings they were, or anything else to compare anything relevant to.
Find some numbers on how many of 1,000,000 firearm owning homes have accidental deaths.. then compare that to how many of 1,000,000 homes will be invaded.
Then do some research on how many home invasions were successful in armed vs. unarmed homes.
I've done all of the research, I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I can tell you this- you won't disprove what I am saying.
This guy killed several families miles from where I live
In the second home he invaded, the guy either had his own gun or got one of raiders guns, and came THIS CLOSE to stopping him... ALL of the families tried to FIGHT..
You shouldn't be afraid of the exceedingly rare accidental shooting. Even in the extremely rare instance of accidental discharge, there's a really good chance no one will be hurt, and the chance of someone being actually killed makes this an even more remote threat.
The reality is that guys like this BTK are more and more common every day and the normal people of this country are REALLY STUPID and REALLY ANGRY because of how horrible things have been.. and they're going to get worse (the situation and these people)