Gun control debate (merged)

[StarRaider]

Did they actually quote bnhunt?

except the part where he says that your 2A "right" is makin' him scared.

 

[GroverCleveland]

The genius that thought sending US Marines to Guam would cause the island to tip over?

That is the dumbest congressional district in America. They elected him to replace...Cynthia McKinney who, although she has some very strong competition today, was the biggest idiot to ever serve in Congress.

 

[Pepe_Silvia]

 

[Pepe_Silvia]

 

[CagleMtnVol]

Nm

 

[Carl Pickens]

That is the dumbest congressional district in America. They elected him to replace...Cynthia McKinney who, although she has some very strong competition today, was the biggest idiot to ever serve in Congress.

That is the dumbest congressional district in America. They elected him to replace...Cynthia McKinney who, although she has some very strong competition today, was the biggest idiot to ever serve in Congress.

This level of stupidity is what will eventually cause the downfall of the US

 

[0nelilreb]

On a positive note , after all this rioting , looting nonsense ... NGV is looking at pistols .

 

[37L1]

On a positive note , after all this rioting , looting nonsense ... NGV is looking at pistols .

You better behave yourself then.

 

[Hayezb]

Picking up my new Sig P320 on Saturday. Pretty pumped.

 

[golfballs]

 

[0nelilreb]

How do you gather this info ? Did they ask 700k people if they were going to shoot themselves later on ? Smh

 

[hog88]

LOL

 

[Rickyvol77]

How do you gather this info ? Did they ask 700k people if they were going to shoot themselves later on ? Smh

Sounds like fake news

 

[LouderVol]

Sounds like fake news

It's either fake news, or there are more non gun owners shooting themselves than we think, or conversely even being nine times more there are very few gun owners who shoot themselves. Something about that math doesnt add up.

It's probably like 1 non gun owner will shoot themselves, 9 gun owners will. And they fail to mention it's out of 700k.

 

[utvolpj]

How do you gather this info ? Did they ask 700k people if they were going to shoot themselves later on ? Smh

It appears they tracked purchases and suicides

 

[0nelilreb]

It appears they tracked purchases and suicides

So they are guessing that these new gun owners will vomit suicide ?

 

[utvolpj]

So they are guessing that these new gun owners will vomit suicide ?

it looks like they actually did. Did you read the story?

 

[0nelilreb]

it looks like they actually did. Did you read the story?

It’s behind a pay wall for me I couldn’t read it .

 

[LouderVol]

What's the risk of a non gun owner shooting themselves? For a gun owner its annually (depending on how many gun owners there are) .1% chance. Based on 100k shootings vs 100,000,000 gun owners.

Now that .1% is very high considering that is every shooting in this nation, only suicides are tracked not when you just wound yourself, this also includes cops and so forth, and I have seen gun owner numbers around 150 million before. So that risk for gun owners could be .05% easily. And this also assumes that that 100k who get shot are gun owners themselves. Which of course is not the case. If you take that into account it's more like a .02% chance a gun owner shoots themselves. But wait that assumes that in the shootings of gun owners by owners the victim is themself, which again simply cant be the case. If you extrapolate the suicide by gun death rate, to the shot rate that .02% chance drops to a .01% chance. But again that's high, suicide is on purpose most self shooting events are not on purpose but I have no way to further extrapolate numbers to justify an even lower risk to gun owners with that fact.

Idl if the article gets into its math, like lil reb its behind a pay wall.

When it comes down to the numbers the amount of general fear over guns just never make sense to me.

 

[KB5252]

I'd this a parody site? Like the Onion, because that's hilarious!

 

[KB5252]

It's hilarious because of course people who have guns are more likely to SHOOT themselves than those who don't own guns, can't shoot yourself without a gun.

 

[hndog609]

This smacks of "Recent studies show a statistically significant correlation between people that swim and drowning vs those that do not swim.".

 

[golfballs]

Studies show that people who own cars are 9 times more likely to get in a car wreck than people who don’t

 

[KB5252]

Studies show people who live near the beach are 10 times more likely to see the ocean.

 

[Rickyvol77]

Studies show that people who own cars are 9 times more likely to get in a car wreck than people who don’t

Studies show that people who throw rocks at police and burn down buildings are 95% more likely to be shot with less lethal rounds than non a**holes