Originally Posted by
Schwinnrider
Um, wasn't Nicole Brown Simpson STABBED TO DEATH? Look, I understand your feelings on firearms. They make you uncomfortable. That's OK. But you keep making up statistics to back your case, and what you claim just isn't true, or is so rare as to not be of any importance. The vast majority of shootings in the US are committed by criminals---against other criminals. Are spouses shot during domestics? Sure. But they are also choked, stabbed, run over with cars(see the crazed dentist in Texas), lit on fire, and beaten to death.
Kids are far more likely to die in swimming pools. Do you worry that your kid will drown at a friends' house?
Guns don't make me uncomfortable at all. I grew up target shooting and will introduce my boys when I believe they are old enough and mature enough to understand their operation and consequences.
I'm not making up stats; I didn't mention any. I believe I stated I was surmising the numbers or something to that effect. It's been quite a while since I took crim stats, but I still recall that the number of times a firearm was used in justifiable self defense was minuscule as compared to the number of firearms in production and in households and also eclipised by the numbers of times they end up being used in domestic violence. The fact that a knife could have been used or choking...those are strawman arguments. The point is that a gun gets used because it's handy and in the household. If you're worried about home intrusion, a home alarm is likely to solve the problem all together.
The pool argument is pretty weak and it's completely unrelated. I know whose houses have pools and my kids learned to swim at the age of 3. I don't know who has an unsecured firearm. We're talking about the most likely use of a firearm statistically in a home.
I'd love to see some stats on it from some one other than an nra funded lobbying firm or ultra liberal anti-gun camp. I could certainly be wrong.