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Re: Tony Martin case: You can't {make up} better criticism of Liberals!
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 28 Jul 2003 10:26:50 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Kyle Henneberque wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mike Petrucelli wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur wrote:
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will not unnecessarily risk my life and those living in my house to do
so.
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By owning a gun are you not already doing that? Statistically, is the
weapon not more likely to kill one of your own household than it is an
intruder?
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That is a flawed statistic.
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Nope. Statistically, the person you are most likely to kill with that gun is
yourself.
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If you look down the barrel and pull the trigger, sure. It is very unlikely
that you kill yourself with a gun unless it is intentional. It does however,
happen, it is just very rare.
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“One of the most common problems with handguns are unintentional deaths and
injuries that occur when people handle guns. Approximately 17,000
unintentional gunshot wounds are treated in U.S. hospitals each year - 1 every
30 minutes, and account for roughly 20% of all nonfatal firearms injuries
treated in hospitals every year... A child in the United States is nine times
more likely to die from unintentional shootings than in 25 similar
industrialized countries combined!”
From:
http://www.handgunfree.org/HFAMain/issues/unintentional.htm
Scott A
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It applies to persons that own a gun but have
never used it until they had to.
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No, it applies to all gun use.
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The way around that is proper gun use through training and teaching.
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