(January 5, 2014 at 1:31 am)Drich Wrote:(January 4, 2014 at 10:09 pm)JuliaL Wrote: 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.
http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/160/10/929.full
Again, if someone wants to kill hurt or mame(sic) it does not matter what tool they use to do it. They will still hurt kill or mame.
They will kill, hurt or maim at lower rates if an efficient tool is not at hand.
If it were the case that violence would be carried out by other means if guns weren't available, then the rates of violent death would be the same in households with or without guns (controlling for other factors such as not being a meth addict).
Of the 31000 gun deaths in the US, roughly 62% are suicides.
The second most likely person you will kill with your gun is a close family member.
This is how evolution by natural selection increases intelligence.
I approve. Please carry on.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? 
