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RE: Alarming statistics.
The
point is that by increasing the number of guns you automatically increase the
overall risk, regardless of whatever other precautions you put in place. The
fact is that the only safe gun is an unloaded or disassembled
one.
The
comparison to cars and road safety is, quite frankly, bollocks. To many people a
car is essential (I, like many people, simply cannot get to work without one).
Within the UK for example there are a ridiculous number of car owners (and yes,
quite probably too many for safety). But equally, there are probably
around 99%+ of people who have no use for a firearm in their daily life
whatsoever.
In a
message dated 6/28/01 5:39:08 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
dddl21455@cableinet.co.uk writes:
The simple fact that you have more gun owners than there are
people in the
UK is a scary enough prospect. If you put guns into the
hands of that many
people (many of whom don't have the intelligence to
use them safely) it's
like sticking your todger betwixt the jaws of a
hungry lion and expecting
him not to bite.
No offense
intended.....but that was a fairly ignorant statement.
Where are
you getting your information about the itelligence of the gun
owners of
America? In CA, just to but a pistol/revolver, you have to pass a
test that is slightly more difficult than the test to get a drivers
license.
And more people are killed with cars each year than guns
(not counting
criminals and cops shot in the line of duty). I am
more scared of the 90 yea
rold lady who can't see over the wheel of her 83
Cadillac (about 4500 lbs of
steel) than I am of my nieghbor with a 12ga
and his Sig.
Benjamin