(January 6, 2013 at 2:01 pm)jonb Wrote: You don't, you have a gun in your house which means it is statistically more likely your family will be killed by a gun. What sort of parent does that make you?
As you may guess, sometime statistics may be misleading, false, or wrongly applied. I like doing a quick check to make sure it is true as applied to me.
My entire family tree from my grandfathers on down, mostly in east Tennessee, has never had a child* injured or killed by a firearm kept in the household. That's several hundred people, and knowing my extended families as well as I do, I am sure there are firearms in 95+ percent of the homes and have been for 80 years plus.
My personal experience directly contradicts your claims. If your broad claims are true, then there is a subset in the population that is greatly skewing the results. What is it? Why didn't you name this over-represented segment? Is the reason for the omission dishonesty or ignorance?
*Younger than 16 years old. One 10 yr old boy was slightly injured by putting rifle cartridges in a fire in which pieces of the brass hit him in the belly. Nothing too serious ( I was alright with a band aid ).
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