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Re: What do other parents do with Lego guns?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 26 Jun 2000 17:11:41 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> Right, but there is something about the GUN icon that freaks people out. I
> have tried to show people statistics demonstrating how few people (kids in
> particular) die from guns and they just refuse to come to the obvious and
> logical conclusions. (e.g. More kids die every year in the US from ingestion
> of household chemicals like turpentine, bleach, soap, etc. than from firearms.
> But no one is frantically lobbying to remove bleach from the public.)
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> I don't have thos statistics on hand either, but I bet that car deaths far
> exceed gun deaths in the US.
Here are a few stats that you might find interesting:
Did you know--
* Every 13 seconds one of America's 70 million gun owners uses a firearm in
defense against a criminal?
* American women use handguns 416 times a day in defense against rapists,
which is a dozen times more often than rapists use a gun?
* A gun kept in the home for protection is 216 times as likely to be used in
defense against a criminal than it is to cause the death of an innocent victim
in that household?
(source: http://pulpless.com/gunclock/)
jt
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| (...) I am comfortable enough with it that my son plays that way sometimes without being hassled by me. I choose not to partake. Just like I choose not to enact gunfights with LEGO (with him...obviously I was doing just that in the pirate game). (...) (26 years ago, 24-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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