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guns are a market that needs to be kept under control percisely because you dont want untrained teenagers to carry it in public places on a common basis, percisely because you want this sort of thing to be rare, and that means you want to marginalize the black market as much as you possibly can. why? for the same reason me and probably most of the people here had no problem getting weed throughout highschool - let's not apply the same rotten logic to guns. |
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It's only useful if by changing A, there is a causal change in B. For a (hypothetical) example: - suicide by gun does happen - attempted suicide by gun does happen - but, of the attempted suicides by gun, only 10% are later successful Therefore, if you prevent an attempted suicide, there's a good chance you have prevented successful suicide. Here is my misquote: "When one person dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's a statistic." I urge everyone to look beyond gun "deaths" Look at the numbers of injuries, and specifically "unintended" incidents For example, the numbers of Emergency Room visits related to guns. Also, look at the use of guns as intimidators of women, and/or "domestic violence" - threats of suicide - threats to kill the wife/girl friend - threats to kill the children California found 66% of the battered women in shelters had been intimidated with a gun. A national random survey found more hostile gun displays against women in the home —primarily by intimate partners— than self-defense gun uses in the home by women or anyone else. Children do find guns... If you ever have children in your home, are your guns already safe from them ? If your children visit other homes, do you FIRST ask if there are any guns in that home? |
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Those are strawman arguments setup so you can say, "if we had tougher gun laws or better yet no guns, no women would be abused". *buzzzzz* Thanks for playing, but guess again. People kill each other. They've done it for a long time and apparently without guns if you believe the whole Cain v Abel bit. |
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At the end of the day there are a lot of people who hate guns for a variety of reasons. In my opinion most of those reasons tie back to a fear of guns because of unfamiliarity. I don't care if you don't want to own a gun. If they scare you, you shouldn't have one. I fully support laws designed to keep handguns out of the hands of convicted felons. I don't support laws designed to make it harder for law abiding citizens to purchase and maintain firearms. I'll be damned if your fear of something leads to my not being able to protect my family should the need arise. |
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(just kidding, I know you said target shooting) |
:lol: you naughty naughty person you.
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By the way ... I think somebody's cooking the numbers. 21K suicides by firearm is too high. There are around 30K completed suicides annually. Less than half of those are by firearm.
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Is once enough, or does the intimidator get one freebee, or two, or... ? Here is data from the Abstract: Quote:
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Also the figure isn't 66% of battered women in shelters. It is 66% of one third. Quote:
137 * .66 = 90 The real number is 90/417 or about 21% Still shitty if you are being abused, but closer to truth and accuracy. |
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