The Myth of the Good Guy With a Gun

[Robert_J]

Originally Posted by chucksnee

All those toddlers being killed....links please....

No, lets keep playing....if you remove all the suicides, that leave about 15,000 deaths per gun per year....


Which leave you about a 4% chance of being killed by a gun, now take out all the gang killings and your percentage goes down even further....

Here are some fun facts:


And here is an awesome little chart from the National Safety Counsel...

Injury Facts Chart




You have a better chance to die from a fall than being assaulted by a gun...

FACTS BE DAMNED!!!!!!!!!!!

In 2000 (per CDC statistics) it was 62 kids age 14 and younger. http://nssf.org/PDF/research/IIR_Inj...istics2013.pdf That's a 74% drop since 1990.

[rikoshaprl]

Originally Posted by Simon Feltser

The NRA is wrong: Owning a gun is far more likely to harm you than protect you.
Good guy with a gun myth: Guns increase the risk of homicide, accidents, suicide.

It seems so obvious: more guns, more bullets flying, more death.
It seems to me the reluctance of some Americans to accept the facts on guns-and-death data is the same kind of intellectual vapor lock that makes them buy lottery tickets.
I declare a holy war started

If you don't like our gun laws get a Constitutional amendment passed to change them.