Our op was, see post 27, mainly interested in covering issues regarding the under 4 crowd. But sure well supervised shooting range or hunting for older kids is a family fun/bonding benefit … aerobic fitness though? Not comparable to swimming albeit better than videogames. I won’t spend pages arguing the point but my read is that the benefit of defensive gun use in a household setting is even more overestimated (and even more driven by irrational hysterical fear) than are the risks of accidental gun deaths. I do concede overstating: significantly less direct benefit to the child from a household gun and in many households none. I should have stated: “The gun not so much so.”
Yes, if there were, 56 it would be, children each year whose lives were saved by defensive gun use in the home each year that would be an offsetting number. I believe that the numbers are far far less than that (there are not even close to that many kids killed in home burglaries gone bad or home invasions), and that the risk of a death in the home because of a gun (both accidental and because of easier ability to act on a violent impulse to self or others) is much greater than the benefit of defending against the imagined, or at least anecdotal, boogeyman, but really, I have been there and done that, have no desire to go into a pages of debate over it. If you believe that there are many boogeymen out there then you have, if nothing else, a psychological benefit gained by the sense that a gun will somehow protect you. Just please keep it stored safely.
You have anxiety? Is that why they won’t let you have guns, or is that why you fear them? Maybe it’s caused by low testosterone levels. You should get that checked out.
You have noticed that my position has been to discount anecdotes on that side of the equation and to agree with the point that DA had made (sans of the hyperbole and the silly point that failing to better promote pool safety equals being anti-gun) that such anecdotes have led some to overestimate the risk that home gun ownership entails?
So yes “like that famous incident” but with even less actual basis in rational risk/benefit assessment, and even more driven primarily by irrational fear. That point help your argument in some way?
But perhaps my testosterone levels are too low for you. I am male but I work with kids and cook too even.
I don’t think that is my point. My point is that the relative focus pediatricians put on pools versus guns demonstrates an anti-gun or at least an gun-phobic attitude.
Cite that pediatricians are looking to ban guns on the federal level
How can you be sure the pediatrician doesn’t ask about guns of patients that she thinks are likely to have guns, and pools in patients that she thinks have pools?
and a followup question:
2a) Do you, Damuri Ajashi, have a pool*? 'Cause if you don’t, then I’m thinking your pediatrician asked the appropriate question of the appropriate patient, and then you went off your head about it.
I don’t recall you having mentioned having a pool. If you have answered this, my apologies, and my thanks for re-answering it
You do understand, Kable, that this is why people think all your guns are actually about defining your manhood and ego defense, and all your talk about constitutionally protected self defense is just eyewash?
