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Originally Posted by tamperpr00f
Even if you could prove to me beyond a shadow of a doubt that we could save 500,000 lives a year by banning guns. It would remain a stupid thing to do.
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This thread isn't about banning guns, it's about carrying guns.
I am just pointing out that owning and carrying guns subjects the owner and the carrier to greater risks than not owning and not carrying guns.
Having a gun in the house allows 45 people a day to successfully turn a suicidal impulse into a suicide, suicide attempts by means other than firearms are far less successful than suicide attempts with firearms, and the vast majority of these suicides are gun owners or the immediate family of gun owners.
A couple of people die each day in gun accidents, again mostly gun owners and their immediate family.
There is real danger in gun ownership.
The "protection" that gun ownership provides can be illusory, sure you can project that 108,000 times people believe they were protected, but I have managed to survive into my 50's at least (having been threatened with guns on three occasions, by idiots that owned guns).
And I have heard people tell their stories about "pulling their piece" and have not been convinced that the gun offered them any real protection, and probably increased the likelihood of them getting harmed, and in one case the gun was the direct cause of the gun owner receiving a severe beating (like two weeks in the hospital severe).
That's the reality I live in, I'm just relating it to you.