Intent is everything -----Original Message----- From: Scott Stroz [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 10:20 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: New Hampshire man arrested for firing gun into ground while catching suspected burglar
I never said handguns == cars. In 2008 firearms caused 10.8 deaths per 100,000 - http://bit.ly/xRmGzM In 2008 automobile accidents caused 12.30 per 100,000 - http://1.usa.gov/xBkg0V (And I will state now that I did not go check the political affiliation of the group in the first link- so Larry may not like it :D ) Intent of design or intent of user aside, in 2008 automobile accidents were the cause of death for about the same number of people as firearms - the stats pretty much show that. Again, I am not so much anti-gun control. I am anti-bad gun control. Most gun control measures I have seen would impact law abiding citizens attempting to buy a gun. They would have little or no effect on the illegal procurement of weapons - kind of like SOPA/PIPA would have no real effect on piracy, but would/could cause trouble for law abiding Internet users. If a gun control measure was introduced that truly limited illegal procurement of weapons, I would be all for it. I am not sure if the stats exist - I did a brief search but came up with nothing - but I wonder how many of those firearm related deaths were from illegally obtained weapons - the ones that gun control laws would have no effect on. On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:02 AM, GMoney <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Aw..shucks...I am really feeling the love...you guys and gals sure >> are swell.... >> > > Now if i could only get you to retire that silly "hand guns = cars" > argument, we'd be best buds :) > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:347655 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
