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Owning a gun does not mean anyone else with a gun is
automatically your friend and has the same values
and objectives as you do.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...ore/facts.html

Owning a gun means that you have something that is more likely to be
stolen.

Not owning one makes you less safe.

Unless it's your own gun that's used against you, or you shoot yourself
by accident, or the gun malfunctions when you use it, or your kids shoot
you or shoot each other because they find and start playing with your
gun, or you use your gun against someone else because you're drunk or
stoned.

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Number of federal safety standards that apply to

- the manufacture of teddy bears: 4
- the manufacture of firearms: 0
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In the entire landscape of consumer products, no product has a less
useful function while at the same time having such a high inherent or
designed capability to cause propery dammage, personal injury or death
as the gun.

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Percentage of Americans who agree that "companies that manufacture guns
with no hunting or sporting purpose should be held financially
responsible when these guns injure or kill people": 45
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Just as the case when you own a car, gun owners should be required by
law to take out liability insurance as a requirement to license and own
a gun. Insurance companies would or could require that you state if you
keep guns in your house, and adjust your insurance premiums accordingly
to take into account the increased risk of injury claims that your gun
poses to the insurance company.