harry wrote:
On May 5, 9:26 pm, "HeyBub" wrote:
harry wrote:
On May 5, 2:04 pm, gonjah gonjah.net wrote:
On 5/5/2012 12:28 AM, harry wrote:

Parents must be half wits.
I bet they are Republicans.
http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2012/05/...hot-dead-by-th...

BTW: Accidental shootings, and all violent crimes, have been on the
decline for years now in the US.

The odds of being accidentally shot in the US are miniscule
compared to death by motor vehicle.

Should we outlaw cars too harry?

Jim

Guns are intended to kill. Auto accidents are just that.
Not having guns would be lives saved.

That's bizarre. Having guns saves lives. By the hundreds of
thousands.

The US experiences over two million defensive gun uses per year.
Were it not
for the gun, a significant number of those instances would result in
death.

Remember the mantra, "If Vince Foster had had a gun, he'd be alive
today."- Hide quoted text -

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Two million. You just made that up. Like the rest of the crap you
invent. (Vince Foster being ane xample.)

Nothing so shames a mocker than to have his mockery debunked.

DEFENSIVE GUN USE

"According to the National Self Defense Survey conducted by Florida State
University criminologists in 1994, the rate of Defensive Gun Uses can be
projected nationwide to approximately 2.5 million per year -- one Defensive
Gun Use every 13 seconds."
http://www.pulpless.com/gunclock/stats.html

"There are approximately two million defensive gun uses (DGU's) per year by
law abiding citizens. That was one of the findings in a national survey
conducted by Gary Kleck, a Florida State University criminologist in 1993.
Prior to Dr. Kleck's survey, thirteen other surveys indicated a range of
between 800,000 to 2.5 million DGU's annually."
http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcdguse.html

"As shown in this table, this amounts to 3.456% of households or 1,029,615
defensive gun uses per year. Accounting for the 15.7% figure from page 176
(cited above): 1,029,615 defensive gun uses per year × .157 of respondents
stating someone "almost certainly would have been killed" if they "had not
used a gun for protection" = 161,650 such incidents. Using percentages for
the same calculation: 3.456% × .157 = 0.54%."
http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp

" In footnote 4, they state, "Kleck and Gertz's survey (1995, pp. 182-3) of
10 other nationwide polls implies a range of 764,036 to 3,609,682 defensive
uses of guns per year."
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2003/04/duncan3.php

.... and several hundred more references.

VINCE FOSTER

As for the Vince Foster slogan, I can't take credit for it. It was a very
popular bumper sticker in its day and I am just your humble reporter.