Hand guns are a problem. They're not a plague, however. In the end, a finger in on the trigger in almost all the shootings.Blind groper wrote:Gawdzilla
In the United States, no matter how you look at it, there is a close relationship between how many people are murdered and how many people own hand guns.
You have pretty much assured me that you do not go along with Seth's madness. Good to see, since we do not need more people sharing that insanity. Would you agree with me that the problem is hand guns? Based on the fact that three quarters of gun ownership in America is sporting rifles, but two thirds of all firearms murders are with hand guns? 8,000 tragic deaths each year, at an all time low?
I used to sleep next to a Mattel gun and a 1911A. Everybody around me was armed, heavily, and they had almost all shown that they could kill other humans. But the only times the weapons were used outside the line of work was when someone suicided. We had discipline and training. If gun safety was taught in the first grade here there would be fewer children shooting each other.