Fun With Guns, or Gun-play, or Serious Firepower? Wasn’t sure which title was best… Your suggestions are welcome. And, yes… I know GUNS are a serious subject… But, they’re necessary, and can be fun too (hunting, target practice… pest control…).
(Assume a backwoods, country accent when reading): Even win Ize a yung boy, Ize round firearms. Now, if weez gonna speke on the merits of gun ownership weez abalutootly must do some siph’rin to gets to the truth…. cause the truth shall set ye free!
Enjoy this except from Larry Elder’s July 10th 2008 artical “Why Do We Keep And Bear Arms?”:
The New York Times, in an editorial condemning the Supreme Court case, says: “Thirty-thousand Americans are killed by guns every year — on the job, walking to school, at the shopping mall. The Supreme Court on Thursday all but ensured that even more Americans will die senselessly.”
Really?
The 30,000 number includes 17,000 suicides. But a person intent on suicide finds a way — gun or no gun. In Japan, for example, more than twice as many people, per capita, kill themselves, yet that country bans handguns.
The hand-wringing New York Times editorial fails to ask the following questions: How many Americans use guns to defend themselves? Of that number, how many believe that but for their ability to use their guns in self-defense, they would be dead?
“When a robbery victim does not defend himself,” former assistant district attorney and firearms expert David Kopel writes, “the robber succeeds 88 percent of the time, and the victim is injured 25 percent of the time. When a victim resists with a gun, the robbery success rate falls to 30 percent, and the victim injury rate falls to 17 percent. No other response to a robbery — from drawing a knife to shouting for help to fleeing — produces such low rates of victim injury and robbery success.”
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August 10th, 2010