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In American, guns are toys to make men feel strong. They are worse than useless in the hands of the untrained and unpracticed. example: http://www.youtube.co

In American, guns are toys to make men feel strong. They are worse than useless in the hands of the untrained and unpracticed. example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QjZY3WiO9s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QjZY3WiO9s

hga 13y ago
In the US around 2.25 million times a year a gun is used in self-defense. In way over 90% of those incidents the gun is never fired, just a display of it and the willingness to use it are sufficient. Anecdotally I'm personally amazed at how well many untrained people successfully use shoot guns in self-defense situations. I would guess that after centuries of incremental ergonomic improvements they turn out to be not so hard to use, and use safely (in terms of accidents they're lots safer than automobiles).
- lifeguard 13y ago
  In USA 90+ people (including children) die EVERY DAY due to firearm accidents. Again, these are toys to make some men feel powerful.
  - hga 13y ago
    Not even close. The number of fatal accidents per year is ~600. To get your 90+ number you're including suicides, which outnumber other illegal uses of guns; seeing that internationally suicide rates have no correlation whatsoever with gun ownership rates, and many developed countries have way higher suicide rates than ours, one would hope you could see gun mediated suicides don't belong in the same category. Ah, while we're doing math, I get 6200 defense uses of guns every day.
    - lifeguard 13y ago
      I was wrong, that stat is for ALL firearm deaths. Only 60 Americans were accidentally killed by guns today. And yesterday. And the day before that. http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/dataRestriction_inj.html http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/dataRestriction_inj.html http://smartgunlaws.org/gun-deaths-and-injuries-statistics/ http://smartgunlaws.org/gun-deaths-and-injuries-statistics/
      - hga 13y ago
        Murder is an "accident"? (OK, one of those 2010 deaths ruled as accidental was a murder or thereabouts, certainly nothing accidental about it: http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/x1939349175/Loaded-gun-kills-girl-at-slumber-party http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/x1939349175/Loaded-gun-kill...)
        lifeguard 13y ago
        60 accidents + 30 murders EVERY.DAY.HERE.

hga 13y ago

In the US around 2.25 million times a year a gun is used in self-defense. In way over 90% of those incidents the gun is never fired, just a display of it and the willingness to use it are sufficient. Anecdotally I'm personally amazed at how well many untrained people successfully use shoot guns in self-defense situations. I would guess that after centuries of incremental ergonomic improvements they turn out to be not so hard to use, and use safely (in terms of accidents they're lots safer than automobiles).

lifeguard 13y ago
In USA 90+ people (including children) die EVERY DAY due to firearm accidents. Again, these are toys to make some men feel powerful.
- hga 13y ago
  Not even close. The number of fatal accidents per year is ~600. To get your 90+ number you're including suicides, which outnumber other illegal uses of guns; seeing that internationally suicide rates have no correlation whatsoever with gun ownership rates, and many developed countries have way higher suicide rates than ours, one would hope you could see gun mediated suicides don't belong in the same category. Ah, while we're doing math, I get 6200 defense uses of guns every day.
  - lifeguard 13y ago
    I was wrong, that stat is for ALL firearm deaths. Only 60 Americans were accidentally killed by guns today. And yesterday. And the day before that. http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/dataRestriction_inj.html http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/dataRestriction_inj.html http://smartgunlaws.org/gun-deaths-and-injuries-statistics/ http://smartgunlaws.org/gun-deaths-and-injuries-statistics/
    - hga 13y ago
      Murder is an "accident"? (OK, one of those 2010 deaths ruled as accidental was a murder or thereabouts, certainly nothing accidental about it: http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/x1939349175/Loaded-gun-kills-girl-at-slumber-party http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/x1939349175/Loaded-gun-kill...)
      - lifeguard 13y ago
        60 accidents + 30 murders EVERY.DAY.HERE.