Quote:You could go so far as outlaw guns across the board and they would still exist... and criminals would still have them... and use them.
This stranger-on-stranger crime wave that the NRA hypes to work up hysteria is a fascinating psychological study of how Americans are motivated by fear. Statistically, a gun in your home is far more likely to kill you, a family member or an acquaintance than any "criminal."
http://www.lcav.org/statistics-polling/g...ics.asp#10
Quote:Of the 13,636 Americans who were murdered in 2009, only 215 were killed by firearms (165 by handguns) in homicides by private citizens that law enforcement determined were justifiable.
According to the CDC in 2007 there were 17,000+ gun related suicides in the US. I'll bet you dollars to donuts that those 17,000 households did not obtain said weapon with the idea that someday they might want to blow their own brains out with it. 17,000 suicides ( in many cases probably NOT the person who bought the gun...that's the problem with families ) versus 215 justifiable cases of self-defense seems like a pretty piss poor ratio to me.
