Another gun responsibility advocate responded:
I get that from the gun guys on my blog all the time. They try to send me links to articles about crime in general to prove some point. They don't get that we are talking about deaths and injuries. Or maybe they do. They just don't want to talk about that part of it.Because if you add the "non-criminal" gun injuries and death--then the number skyrockets. It also puts paid to the things being "safe". But gun guys can't be serious saying that guns aren't dangerous/
Of course, some of the gun guys get the difference, but they don't have credible stats to use in their favour unless they stay with the broader "crime" category. On the other hand, people who want gun control don't give a damn if owning guns reduces bicycle theft or public graffiti etc. - it's the dead and injured that rile them!
Anyway, it's all semantics with the gun guys. Technically guns are not dangerous - if you put a gun in a metal cage it will sit there till it rusts away and never hurt anyone, so guns are not dangerous! Yes. that's a facile argument, because that is not how guns are used, but the gundamentalists will stand by that semantic argument.
The problem is that no matter how you want to try and change the topic: a firearm is a weapon with its purpose being to kill or cause serious bodily injury when used correctly. If they were not lethal 9or at least harmful) there wouldn't be the power associated with the things.
You people get more boring by the day. If you want to compare numbers, as Mikeb has pointed out in the past, there are about 500,000 total deaths and injuries in a given year from firearms. Those injuries are of all types from minor to serious. Match that with the at least 800,000 defensive gun uses that the National Academies of Science say happen in the same period.
ReplyDeleteThere is no way of knowing how many of those 8000,000 actually saved a life. It's more exact to count the dead. Again you defend deaths, so you can have your gun without restrictions. Truly a despicable, lying, NRA, fake professor.
ReplyDeleteAnd here I was, thinking you were ready to be reasonable, given some of your recent comments. But now you're back to your old self. Rationality is never a condition that lasts long with gun control freaks.
DeleteJust pasting comments now NRA Greg
DeleteDo you have multiple personalities? If so, let's stay with the civil Jim.
DeleteFor a second there, I thought Andrew saw the light and was preaching to his side to drop the "gun death" measurement. But no, it's the other way. We're not supposed to talk about murder- only "gun deaths".
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