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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]well, you are the reason, OP, that I wouldn't want to move to DC -- because your need to feel secure could result in a weapon going off in the wrong way and hitting a person in my family or me. It feels incredibly selfish. America is terrible in that way.[/quote]

Wow, OP is being selfish by taking prudent steps to help ensure her safety and security is selfish, and an example of how America is terrible.

Simply will never be able to understand that type of thought process.   Hope you don’t live in one of the constitutional carry states.  [/quote]

There's little actual statistical evidence to show that more people carrying guns reduces crime or makes anyone any safer.  And in fact the data shows the exact opposite, along with increased suicides.[/quote]

It depends on the statistics you choose. Personal firearms are used at least hundreds of thousands of times a year in the US to prevent or terminate criminal assault, typically without firing a shot. Carry permit holders commit fewer crimes than police. As for suicide, it is well established that depriving people of firearms may change the means, but it does not change the frequency, of suicide. The most common suicide method in Europe is an over the counter drug. In Japan people hang themselves. And in this day an age, with the emphasis on individual rights and the euthanasia movement in full effect, whether to keep on living or not would seem to be a choice for the individual, and hence not other people’s business. [/quote]

Bullshit.  Those "Defensive Gun Use" statistics from Kleck and others have been debunked a hundred times over.[/quote]

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