"Jim Wilkins" wrote in message ...
"PrecisionmachinisT" wrote in message
So, if we round this number upwards to 200, it becomes clearly
evident that on average, your garden variety, law-abiding gun
owner is statistically about 4 times more likely to cause an
accidental
death than he is to shoot some a bad guy in a case of justifiable
homicide.

That's like arguing that we don't need a Navy because their accidental
death rate is greater than the number of enemies they kill.

I'm just stating facts, you're the one trying to argue....

It
deceptively disregards their enormous but unquantifiable deterrent
value, the main reason for having the Navy in the first place.


Additionally, you're probably starting your arguement out with a false premise; doubtful the Navy has an accidental kill rate anywhere close to it's intentional.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_premise