# Report: Guns in the home provide greater health risk than benefit **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [April 28, 2011, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/report-guns-in-the-home-provide-greater-health-risk-than-benefit/580014 "2011-04-28T11:02:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/report-guns-in-the-home-provide-greater-health-risk-than-benefit/580014/181 "2011-04-29T22:36:08Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > We should picket. I had a response, but it’s paling into insignificance as the thread goes on. ---
**Author:** ![Nadir](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nadir/32/7302_2.png) [@Nadir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nadir)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/report-guns-in-the-home-provide-greater-health-risk-than-benefit/580014/182 "2011-04-29T22:39:52Z")
Recognizing why the antis don’t associate firearms risk with any other type of risk makes this whole debate pretty moot. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/report-guns-in-the-home-provide-greater-health-risk-than-benefit/580014/183 "2011-04-30T01:45:02Z")
> [@Tristan](#): > > Do you ever get tired of being wrong? This is not an echo chamber. Provide some proof that the NRA made up the American historical attraction to guns. > > I’m very interested to see how you spin the 2nd Amendment as being fabricated by the “gun industry”. Silly rabbit! Don’t you know by now? _His post is his cite._ Because it _obvious_ and widely known to everyyone except the stoopid, evil, conservative, facist, gun nuts that what he says is _so!_ indubitably _true!!_ 'Course, I don’t know where liberal, black, Hispanic, or Jewish gun nuts figure into his thinking. :smack: _Silly me!!!_ They’re just dupes of the facist, conservative, evil, stoopid gun lobby, and, as Class Traitors and Boot-Licking Lackeys of the Running Dog Ruling Class, and sympathizers of the S.E.C.F.G.Ns. (not to be confused with the F.C.E.S.G.L.), will be _first_ against the wall when the Glorious People’s Revolution comes! ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/report-guns-in-the-home-provide-greater-health-risk-than-benefit/580014/184 "2011-04-30T01:48:03Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > We should picket. “Hey-Hey! Ho-Ho! My Hands Aren’t Dead, And They’re Not Cold! Hey-Hey! Ho-Ho!” ---
**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/report-guns-in-the-home-provide-greater-health-risk-than-benefit/580014/185 "2011-04-30T02:06:34Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I’m curious where these numbers came from. Also, is there a listing for swimming pool deaths? The Google and the sum total of my attention span. [http://www.cdc.gov/HomeandRecreationalSafety/Water-Safety/waterinjuries-factsheet.html](http://www.cdc.gov/HomeandRecreationalSafety/Water-Safety/waterinjuries-factsheet.html) We really need to ban water: In 2007, there were 3,443 fatal unintentional drownings in the United States And boating: An additional 496 people died, from drowning and other causes, in boating-related incidents In 2007, of all children 1 to 4 years old who died from an unintentional injury, almost 30% died from drowning. I can’t help but feel if we could slowly reduce all the things that kill us we’d eventually live for ever. But would we want to if our world didn’t include an icecream cone after a long game of plutonium basketball. ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/report-guns-in-the-home-provide-greater-health-risk-than-benefit/580014/186 "2011-04-30T04:13:36Z")
> [@emacknight](#): > > But would we want to if our world didn’t include an icecream cone after a long game of plutonium basketball. Think of all the children who die in tragic ice cream related accidents. ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/report-guns-in-the-home-provide-greater-health-risk-than-benefit/580014/187 "2011-05-02T18:45:30Z")
> [@HoboStew](#): > > I did, 3 posts prior to the one you quoted. > [@HoboStew](#): > > With guns, the only practical use is to shoot people. > [@HoboStew](#): > > By “practical use” I meant as a tool to accomplish a specific goal, not a recreational need. Ok, so by practical you mean anything not recreational. Your assertion is that the only non-recreational use of a firearm is to shoot people. This statement is laughably asinine. You can shoot animals too 🙂 I suppose if you don’t believe in self defense then your position on firearms would seem reasonable in that context. Do you believe in the right to self defense? The study in the OP is ludicrous since it ignores or discounts the benefit of defensive gun uses. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/report-guns-in-the-home-provide-greater-health-risk-than-benefit/580014.md?page=9)