"Han" wrote in message
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"Attila.Iskander" wrote in
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There you go building a strawman to try to support an untenable
position I am NOT crazy, except for daring to challenge you on this
Most if not all people who own guns are not crazy either
Ditto for law-abiding people who carry concealed.
Notice that unlike you it DO DIFFERENTIATE between the law-abiding and
the criminal

Fine. A few days ago, a perfectly fine captain of an aircraft went nuts
and almost caused the deaths of 250 (I think) people. Some time ago, the
then legal owner of a pistol shot up a bunch of peacably gathered people
resulting in deaths and injury. Gabby Giffords was one of the injured.
The shooter was subdued before more harm was done by physical restraint,
only because he couldn't reload his weapon.


YAWN
When someone is reduced to argument by anecdote, one has to wonder at the
intelligence involved
If you want anecdotes for the other side, just read the NRA published
(monthly) "The Armed Citizen" which is a compendium of incidents gleaned
from the media where individuals used a gun to avoid being the victim of a
criminal.
But for those who operate at a higher level, there is the simple statistical
truth that while there are about 1,500,000 criminal incidents annually that
involve a gun, there are 2,500,000 incidents where a gun is used to avoid
being the victim of a criminal.
Notice that WIDE discrepancy of about 1,000,000 annual incidents IN
FAVOR of armed citizens ???


All perfect examples of how a person who was considered fine and capable
can go berserk, for lack of a better term.


You claimed to have worked in a VA lab.
Did you have to study statistics to get there ?
If so, have you forgotten the simple rule of statistics that individual
incidents are NOT representative of trends or facts that apply to large
numbers ?

I would suggest that you are reduced to such an argument BECAUSE you are
ignorant of the facts, are unwilling to face them, and unwilling to consider
the possibility that you may be wrong on this one.