In article , Upscale wrote:
On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 07:50:25 -0800, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:02:21 -0700, the infamous Mark & Juanita
And please do more research on your position. Explore the many books
out there which will give you both sides. It will amaze you. (It sure
did me.)

It's easy to quote some of the cases where someone has used a gun to
protect themselves from from some drug crazed person.

And it's just as easy for me to quote the opposite, where guns have
led to accidental deaths.

Actually, it's not nearly as easy, since the former outnumber the latter by
several orders of magnitude.
http://www.pulpless.com/gunclock/stats.html estimates 2.5 million defensive
uses of firearms per year in the U.S.

Or how about I quote the statistics for innocent people being shot in
the US every year.

Please do.

Also please specify who qualifies as "innocent people" by your definition too.
Mine would exclude burglars shot by homeowners, gang members shot by other
gang members, drug dealers shot by rival drug dealers, and so on.

Note that the *total* number of firearm homicides in the U.S. in 2006 [most
recent year for which I could find statistics] was 12,791
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm

Even if *all* of them qualified as "innocent" victims that figure is still
outnumbered by the defensive uses by a ratio of approximately 200:1.