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Originally Posted by Steve
Street punks "brandish" weapons. Responsibe gun owners draw their weapons and fire them when appropriate...
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You and I are no different than street punks to an anti Steve.
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Originally Posted by Steve
Sorry, but you can't say something like that and not back it up. References, please...
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Well, that number is kind of true. 45 of those 80 are suicides. Intelligent and intellectually honest people realize they are going to kill themselves anyway regardless of guns. Roughly 33 are crime victims - and we all know that criminals, being criminals, aren't going to obey any gun control laws. (As an aside, those 33 also include people who are killed in justifiable homicide - i.e. a criminal killed in the commission of a crime) The remaining 2 are accidents. While that is sad for those directly affected, in a nation of 300 million people, there's going to be a few which die daily from their own stupidity - or the stupidity of others.
It is also arguably true to say most of these people are gun owners, or at least have ready access to them. Of course, it is just as true to say they are air breathers, and it has just as much bearing on their death.