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Originally Posted by TSGracchus
There are going to be situations in which having a gun saves a person's life or protects his/her property. There are going to be situations in which it endangers the lives of their owners or their owners' family and friends. Statistically, the latter are much more numerous.
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According to the OP's stats above, this is absolutely not true.
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Originally Posted by TSGracchus
I know that, and for that reason I do not plan ever to own and keep a firearm around the house. I have no irrational fear of guns; I grew up in Texas and used to go target shooting all the time. And yet I can still remember the time when a friend of mine who was over visiting took my dad's revolver out and, assuming it was unloaded, pointed it at my sister and pulled the trigger . . .
Luckily, he was right, it wasn't loaded. But you know as well as I do that you NEVER make that assumption.
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Blame that on the person who left it where your friend could get, and your friend for being a total idiot.
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Originally Posted by TSGracchus
Kids, though, kids are irresponsible, it's part of being a kid. I look back on that memory and shudder at what could have happened, if my father had forgotten to unload the gun before putting it away.
I could see having a gun if I was in a high-risk situation for one reason or another, where the risk of having something happen where I would need the gun outweighed the danger of having the gun itself. But I don't expect ever to be in that sort of situation.
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There is no innate danger in owning a gun, provided it is properly stored. None at all.
Matt