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Originally Posted by buggyone
In those cases mentioned, if the homes did not have guns in them - would the situation have occured? Would the wife have stabbed her husband in the shower? Would the suicides have taken place with other means? Would the display of a rolled up pair of dirty socks intimidate someone in a parking lot?
Take guns out of the equation and the situation just might turn out a lot different.
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11,439 people died from guns in 2009. That is small compared to so many other things that kill people like cars, shower stalls, alcohol, etc. . Doctors kill over 200,000 people a year. Large numbers for cars and even falls in shower stalls. Let's ban them all. On average 2500 college students die annually from suicide and alcohol abuse. 10-12 die from gunshots. A perfect example of an uninformed society finding it easier to focus on guns rather than the much bigger issues and causes of death.
England took guns out of the equation and then tried to take out knves as evil people simply switched to them. Next they will be outlawing axes and then rocks. Humans have killed a lot more people before the invention of guns then after. Guns may make it a little easier but they do not get rid of bad intentions, only the methods used o carry them out.
If anyone cannot spot at least one drunk person per night in the Town Squares they are a perfect example of wearing blinders. TV has a drinking culture similar to most vacation spots. It is naive to think that not one person per night gets drunk in the town squares. Of course, the drinkers I know define drunk differently than I do. Apparently slurred speech and hanging all over people is not drunk.
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