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Poster: Dan Onymous
Subject: RE: My plan to make more popular like the NFL
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the bigger question wrote:

[quote]Dan Onymous wrote:

[quote]track chick wrote:

The problem with that though, is that guns aren't generally used to defend lives.


Incorrect. Guns are used far more often to defend life and property than to take them. The reason you don't hear about this is that usually, drawing the gun is enough to drive off the criminal.

I wish I could find the actual study, but I know I've heard and seen cited that guns may be used (anything from drawn to used to kill) in self-defense as many as two million times per year in the US.[/quote]

And how many accidents do they cause?[/quote]

Far fewer. For example, more children die from drowning in bathtubs than from gun accidents. Bathtub drownings just don't make sexy TV.

Here's the thing- if you live in the rural US (I'm talking backwoods KY or TX), then I can understand your wanting to own a gun. If you live in the city or suburbs, then I'm sorry... you will be hardpressed to find very many instances when a gun is needed. I have nothing against guns or gun ownership, but the bottom line is that (in the vast majority of places) they just aren't needed.


Until they are.
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