On Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 10:19:24 PM UTC-5, Robert Green wrote:
"BenignBodger" wrote in message
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That's right it is against the odds. _Today's_ kiddy shooter is a
five-year-old in Missouri who shot his little brother to death with the
fun
toy his grandpa let him have access to.

I think it's fascinating that another poster here is so *sure* of himself
(and so ignorant) that he's willing to call someone an idiot about not
knowing probabilities of child gun injuries.

There you go again, either incapable of simple comprehension or lying.
I never said any such thing. I called a certain poster an idiot for
posting this:

"exactly what is the point of having concealed carry and not carrying it?"

He posted that in reponse to my post where I said that the odds of
what happened in Walmart with the two year old were staggering.

My exact retort was:

"What's the point to your point, idiot?"

And I stand by that, as his comment has no relation to what I said and the
poster is a well known village idiot troll.



He clearly doesn't seem to
have a inkling about the REAL number of kids who are killed and injured by
guns a year. Too much Fox Faux News watching, I guess. Even the very
conservative NY Daily News knows the sad truth about the *real*
probabilities:

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-styl...icle-1.1592703

The grim findings by Yale University researchers, published today in the
journal Pediatrics, estimate that firearm injuries sent 7,391 children to
the emergency room in 2009 -- about 20 per day. Of these, 6% go on to die
from their injuries . . . Other data reported by the American Academy of
Pediatrics estimates over 3,000 additional children die from their injuries
before reaching the ER, putting the total number hurt or killed each year
above 10,000.

So approximately 2 kids are killed (or horribly maimed) a day from gun
injuries.


Your problem is you want to swallow lib nonsense that is pretty much
fabricated. We have a two year old here. That Yale study included kids
and "adolescents" together. Apparently adolescents includes 19 year
old gangbangers. You think 17, 18, 19 year old gangbangers should be
conflated with a two year old? So there goes that "study".

Here from your beloved Washington Post, which is no friend of gun owners:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/p...-we-dont-know/

"And we know that 102 people killed in these accidental gun deaths in 2011 were younger than 18, according to Vernick, with half of these children younger than age 13."

So, you have 50 kids younger than 13 in a country of 300 million. That's
already extrmely small odds. Take it down to the 2 year old toddler, and
it's more like one or two in 300 million and it's *exactly* what I said,
ie staggering odds. To put it in perspective, the odds of winning the
Powerball lottery are 2X better. Capiche?

For further confirmation:

"Citing CDC statistics, ABC reports that 98 "kids under age 18" died from accidental shootings in 2010".


Those statistics don't even include the poor little kid who has
to grow up knowing he killed his own mother. That's an unimaginable burden,
IMHO. Makes you wonder who the real idiots are that don't understand
probabilities?

I don't have to wonder. I know it's you. Either you don't understand
statistics or you deliberately choose to lie and misrepresent, take
your pick.


I own quite a few guns but I wouldn't if there were kids in my house.

Typical hypocritical lib. You come in here at every opportunity, lying
about guns like a typical anti-gun nut. But then it turns out it's
perfectly OK for you to not only have a gun, but to have a carry permit.
It's just the rest of us that shouldn't.



Ironically, most times I've had to use a gun to avoid being assaulted the
gun could have easily been unloaded. Only once was someone stupid enough to
advance against a pistol pointed at him and I had to fire into the ground to
convince him to retreat. Now I own a Taster and am much more likely to grab
that then a handgun.

--

Bobby G.


What does the taster do? Offer free samples of food to the perp
in lieu of shooting you? Idiot.