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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The risk to your kids from such incidents is minuscule.  They face a much greater risk of injury or death from just driving on the beltway.

Further, the increasing prevalence of texting while driving presents a greater risk to your kids - and it's preventable (not to mention illegal and not constitutionally protected).  Then there is drunk driving - which is common among undocumented males.  What about that threat?  Done anything about that?

Why aren't you raising the alarm about those risks?[/quote]

First of all, no.  The number of non-driver fatalities in the US is about 9,000 per year, which is much lower than homicides.  So my kids are at greater risk of homicide than automobile fatality.

Second, of course I care about vehicle safety, about texting and driving, and about drunk driving.  That's why we make laws against them.  Consider the alarm raised.

And lastly, every year cars are used 392 billion times for legitimate purposes, with 30,000 fatalities.  When guns can match that safety record, maybe I will consider them equivalent risks.[/quote]

Did you simply make up the figure "392 billion times" every year?  Looks that way.

Luckily, rational people stick to evidence and facts.  Fact is, studies confirm that every year in the US, there are 2 million or more, defensive gun uses (DGUs).  Here is a peer - reviewed academic study (as opposed to your apparent use of made-up members):

(Source: Gary, Kleck and Marc Gertz, "Armed Resistance to Crime: The Prevalence and Nature of Self-Defense with a Gun," Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 1995, Vol. 86 No. 1.)

But I guess your blind hatred towards guns is immune to facts?
[/quote] 1995?   WTF????[/quote]

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