Gary M Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 read the last 2 sentences starting with "despite the decline.." awful may be better than terrible but both are bad. Another gun law will not change that, see Chicago and DC as two prime examples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truth on hold Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 (edited) do you think another couple of statistics might be useful to this analysis? ya know like number of motorists per 100,000 population versus gun owners?. or hours spent driving versus shooting per 100,000 population? additionally, safety is constantly the subject of research in transportation industry. not so much in the gun industry. the biggest safety improvement will likely be getting rid of drivers through intelligent cars. wouldn't the analogous situation be great for the most lethal types of guns? The key distinction is that cars have an important utility which is transportation. Guns have none other than killing. Its a false comparison, which again was covered a year ago on this board. But the gun-goobers here are like zombies: brain dead, persistent, and voluminous. Edited June 12, 2014 by Joe_the_6_pack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 Here are 33 Questionable Entries on the ‘Viral’ Everytown Map of All School Shootings Since Newtown From the article: No matter what that number actually is – it’s too many. But the solution to stopping criminals with guns won’t ever be taking guns away from their potential victims. In a nation where there are 44,000,000 firearms owners who are not committing gun homicides every year, and roughly eleven thousand murders and nineteen thousand suicides (as of 2013), one has to ask the question: why should people forfeit their right to self-defense on behalf of a tiny minority of criminals? And where is the evidence that would solve the problem and make people safer anyway? What we need are real solutions: Those may include bullet-proof blankets, tornado shelters, armed police on duty around schools, security guards in tough school districts, metal detectors or better mental health screening for rampage violence tendencies – but limiting the self-defense capability of law-abiding citizens is not the solution some wish it would be when it comes to stopping violent criminals. http://www.ijreview.com/2014/06/146537-everytown-map-74-school-shootings-since-newtown-goes-viral-33-questionable-entries/ . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary M Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 The key distinction is that cars have an important utility which is transportation. Guns have none other than killing. Its a false comparison, which again was covered a year ago on this board. But the gun-goobers here are like zombies: brain dead, persistent, and voluminous. Just plain wrong!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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