You’ve been clear that you have a real aversion to providing cites for your claims. You also keep failing to answer basic questions, though we can sort of deduce answers from other parts of your responses.
Most interestingly, you haven’t explained how guns designed for concealemt are designed for “criminal intent” in light of the fact that more than 3/4 of all states have shall-issue concealed carry for ordinary citizens, more have may-issue concealed carry, and all states allow the police to carry concealed.
Also, I’m still not entirely clear on what you mean by ‘safe storage’, only that it definately precludes storing the gun in a manner useful for self-defense. It appears not to just mean locking up a gun when the owner is not around, but keeping the gun locked up when the owner is around.
You haven’t shown that any of your proposals would have a significant effect on those activities, so even if we accept your argument above, you haven’t even come close to showing that your proposals would have a significant effect on decreasing gun homicide by criminals. Now that I think of it, you haven’t even shown that theft from individuals is a significant part of the black market supply of guns.
Hmmm… do you have, maybe, a cite for this claim, or is it just an assertion on your part? Maybe just provide a few of these studies.
I like how literature is ‘full of studies’ that support your position, but only ‘some literature’ shows that DGU is effective in self-defense. Is this being used in the normal sense of ‘some literature’, or more like your earlier use of’some states’ to mean ‘more than 3/4 of states’?
Cite. You don’t even bother to NAME these groups, do you really expect that statement to be taken seriously?
Well, considering that the ‘evidence’ that handguns are soo dangerous to their owners is bald assertions unbacked by evidence (like your case) or hysterical ranting and accusations of ciminal intent (like happyheathen’s), they certainly don’t involve any significant risk to me. The FBI stats on resisting criminal attacks certainly support that you’re safer if you resist a criminal by any means (I’ll dig up a link if you want one), and I’d certainly rather have an effective tool for resisting criminal attacks than just good intentions.
Not that I really expect an answer given your lack of responses to previous questions, but what good would having a gun in a safe do if some theif were to break in while I was around? Couldn’t he just threaten me (I’m unarmed in this scenario, remember) to get me to open the safe anyway?
Self-defense is a fundamental human right, not an entitlement.
You have consistently refused to even tell us what sort of safe storage you envision, so I can’t really argue about whether your ‘minimizing theft’ scenario is reasonable. How many times do I have to ask you to let us in on the secret of your safe storage requirements before you’ll do so? It’s really odd that you’d require classes on the topic but treat it like some sort of state secret in this conversation.
Do you have a cite for this, or is it just another angry assertion that you’re not going to bother to support? Also, until you further clarify it, I’m going to take your ‘fair number’ to mean ‘more than 3/4’ since you used ‘some states’ to mean ‘more than 3/4 of states’ previously, and I’d be really interested in finding out that 75% of all weapons ‘on the street’ come from thefts from private residences.
You won’t even tell us what ‘cavelair storage’ is, so how am I supposed to take your raving seriously? Aside from that, you haven’t actually shown that leaving handguns in a big pile in the living room poses any danger to others, or supplies some significant fraction of the criminal market. You also haven’t explained what other dangerous devices need to be subject to the same storage requirements; does it include knives, cars, ski masks, or anything else?
Or we can just pass batches of laws further restricting law-abiding citizens without considering whether said laws will do any good, like you seem to advocate.