I'll have to dig up the source for this again, but I remember reading recently that if there is a handgun in the house, suicide, accidental deaths, and homicides increase by 2 or 3 times over those household who do not have handguns.
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:35 AM, GMoney <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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:347439 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
