On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 20:42:26 GMT, Paul Kierstead wrote:
In article ,
Dave Hinz wrote:

How many of these are suicides? How many are criminal-on-criminal violence?
How many of them are in places where gun control prohibits honest folks
from protecting themselves, making them easy (and safe) targets of armed
criminals?

Why should I run those numbers for you? Does it matter? The point was
that a lot of violence (or accidents) happens with firearms.

Yes, that much is true.

I didn't say anything about conclusions; in fact, I very much avoided
saying anything of the sort. However, you disputed the numbers, I gave
you the numbers. It is now up to you to go further.

Fair enough, but I think I'll pass - this topic loses a bit of glitter
after the dozenth time or so.

I suspect that no matter how I broke down the numbers you would
eventually fall back to the old adage "Guns don't kill people, people
kill people". So I say screw it, no point in arguing either way.

And tell me how that's wrong. At the end of the day, no piece of hardware
operates itself, there's a human directing it. Until or unless guns
develop intelligence which allows them to be autonomous, it's still the
person who bears responsibility for their actions.