On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 8:43 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > On 20 December 2014 at 13:58, Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 3:32 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 19 December 2014 at 23:02, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 9:24 AM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> They also failed to foresee that hand-held weapons would become so >>>>> powerful. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Are you sure that more powerful hand-held weapons would change their >>>> minds about the need to keep a balance of power between the government and >>>> the citizens? I suspect it would just reinforce the idea. >>>> >>>> I'm not sure of anything. However I doubt they could foresee a 9 year >>> old girl being shown how to fire an Uzi. >>> >> >> Kids drown in pools all the time but that doesn't mean adults should be >> forbidden from swimming. >> > > I'm not sure how that has any relevance whatsoever, but basically you > should look after kids in potentially dangerous situations, e.g. near > swimming pools. >
So accordingly, if you have guns in the house they should be kept in a safe so kids or other unauthorized people can't access them. Just because some things are dangerous does not mean they have no legitimate purposes, be it (recreational swimming / recreational shooting), (fly fishing for food / hunting for food), (water sprinklers to protect buildings / firearms for home defense). > >> >>> That was such a moronic thing to do that I can't really feel it was a >>> huge loss that she accidentally shot and killed her instructor (indeed a >>> Darwin award could be on its way - but it's indicative of the incredible >>> stupidity that is exemplified by the NRA (I think it's called) which seems >>> to think it's a good thing that America has way more gun related deaths and >>> accidents than any other country in the first world (and most in the third >>> world). >>> >> >> It probably has far more lives saved and defended with guns than any >> other country in the first world (estimates range from 500,000 - 2,000,000 >> defensive gun uses per year). But news agencies are less interested in >> reporting tragedies that didn't happen. >> > > Saved from other people with guns.....can you spot the flaw in the > argument? The total number of gun related injuries and deaths in the US is > massively greater per person than anywhere else in the first world. > > Most of the problems from having guns around is due to "unintentional > misuse" (like the 9 year old girl). To avoid this one could, oooh, I dunno > - try not having guns around so much? Seems to work for the rest of the > world. > It seems to work fine in Switzerland, where every house has a battle rifle. Gun ownership rates in Germany, France, and Canada are comparable to ownership rates in the US, but they don't have the murder problem we do. Why do you think that is? Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
