On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well let's look at that. Is the homicide rate by firearm exponentially > higher in Arizona as compared to the rest of the US? >
Why do people always focus on homicide rate when it comes to guns? Hand guns do far more damage every single day in this country than can be reflected in attributable deaths. I'd like to see this stat: Number of times in a given day that an innocent American's day, week, month, year or possible life, is negatively affected by a hand gun. Doesn't have to be a homicide...could be as simple as a night time clerk who had a gun shoved in his face and now is afraid to even leave his house. Or the battered wife who's reminded of the glock King Asshole keeps in his closet should she ever think about leaving him. The gun flashed in the waistband of the punk on the street because someone else looked at him wrong. You are getting lost in statistics when all it takes is a little common sense: Why do we need easily concealable and portable weapons? Only two reasons: 1) to do bad things to people or 2) to protect ourselves from the people in 1. Your argument is the same tired one: we can never eliminate 1, so we should always have 2. In reality, 2 ensures 1 will always thrive, which feeds 2, which feeds 1, which.....on and on and on it goes. We should be better than this. -- Through the too many miles And the too little smiles I still remember you ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:347435 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
