In the case of US gun ownership:
Carrying a gun increases your chance of being shot in an assault by 4.5 times.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2759797/
Having a gun in the house roughly doubles your chance of dying by homicide.
Guns are very useful in committing suicide.
Being a male in a house with a gun increases your chance of dying by successful suicide by 10.4 times.
You are 31 times more likely to succeed in suicide using a gun compared to other methods.
http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/160/10/929.full
Before I knew this, I used to be pro gun control. I believed that the arguments for personal protection from crime or government were not as compelling as my fear of being shot by some random gun nut in public.
But being in favor of a lower world population and a believer in natural selection against stupidity I now think everyone who wants a gun should have it. It is only a matter of time before they or one of their children kills themselves.
I think the people who don't believe statistics derived from objectively collected data are the same people who think they can beat the odds at casinos. They would be the mathematically otherly abled (that's politically correct for maths crippled.) If I have to trade off giving up my purse to a mugger for reducing the chances of my dying by violence as cited above,I'll give up the handbag. It's probably a fake anyway.
Carrying a gun increases your chance of being shot in an assault by 4.5 times.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2759797/
Having a gun in the house roughly doubles your chance of dying by homicide.
Guns are very useful in committing suicide.
Being a male in a house with a gun increases your chance of dying by successful suicide by 10.4 times.
You are 31 times more likely to succeed in suicide using a gun compared to other methods.
http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/160/10/929.full
Before I knew this, I used to be pro gun control. I believed that the arguments for personal protection from crime or government were not as compelling as my fear of being shot by some random gun nut in public.
But being in favor of a lower world population and a believer in natural selection against stupidity I now think everyone who wants a gun should have it. It is only a matter of time before they or one of their children kills themselves.
I think the people who don't believe statistics derived from objectively collected data are the same people who think they can beat the odds at casinos. They would be the mathematically otherly abled (that's politically correct for maths crippled.) If I have to trade off giving up my purse to a mugger for reducing the chances of my dying by violence as cited above,I'll give up the handbag. It's probably a fake anyway.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat?