Report: Guns in the home provide greater health risk than benefit

[Malacandra]

@DrFidelius

We should picket.

I had a response, but it’s paling into insignificance as the thread goes on.

[Nadir]

Recognizing why the antis don’t associate firearms risk with any other type of risk makes this whole debate pretty moot.

[ExTank]

@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!

[ExTank]

@DrFidelius

We should picket.

“Hey-Hey! Ho-Ho! My Hands Aren’t Dead, And They’re Not Cold! Hey-Hey! Ho-Ho!”

[emacknight]

@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

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.

[Zeriel]

@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.

[Bone]

@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.