RE: Don't Rip My Head Off -- It's Worth a Read (Gun Self Defense Study)
December 19, 2012 at 12:43 am
(December 19, 2012 at 12:28 am)Ryantology Wrote: I think my favorite part is this:
Quote:There were 535 accidental firearms deaths in 2006 within a population of almost 300 million people. Although every lost life is tragic, the proportion is not particularly startling.
I bet the proportion would be pretty startling if one of those 535 was someone he knew. Like, his kid. I wonder how high that number has to be before it's 'startling'.
There were 353,175 firearms deaths between 1999 and 2010, according to the CDC. Is that startling?
Compared to other statistics? No.
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
