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Originally Posted by Gunni
well, Franck did post sources, I was simply using your way of debating by blowing off what you said with out further explanation.
It is a fact that if people have guns they are more likely to use them. My Grandfather has lived in the states for almost 40 years and has never owned a gun, and has never wished he owned a gun. The only burglary he remembers in the neighbourhood (a normal suburban neighbourhood, nothing fancy) was next door to him while the neighbours were away.
You are more likely to die in a lot of ways you don't even think about than getting attacked in your own home (unless ofcourse you live somewhere well dodgy). If you live in anormal place owning a gun is actually putting your family at more risk than not having a gun...
Beside the point, I quite like guns, I grew up in Iceland and I've often gone hunting with my dad and brother. But the fact that in the US you can buy weapons that are only designed to do damage to humans is something I am against. They are not called assault weapons because you are going to go out and assault a deer...
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ok, I pretty much agree with this post. The Kellerman issue I was referring to, was that during the clinton years when h.c.i. was in full swing they were grabbing twisted stats about gun violence. to try to combat this, the n.r.a. set about digging up its own facts. Of course the fact findings were totally at opposite ends of a scale due to the agendas' behind each organization. So since that was the case the n.r.a. went about interviewing those who h.c.i. had obtained stats from. Kellerman was one of only a few who even bothered to be interviewed by n.r.a. officials. When asked about his findings that a gun in the home was 43 times more likely to be used against a family member, he stated that the overwhelming majority of those incidents were of inner city youths using the gun on a family member, and that something like more than 90 something % of those guns were not purchased from dealers where the owner of the gun was the purchaser, meaning the gun was obtained without any background check on the owner of the gun. The world would be safer if guns didnt exist at all. but they do. Which means I plan on having many, and knowing how to use them.
But I am curious to your disagreement with the shotgun info I had given earlier.