Wow. What a great point. Nobody has ever brought up alcohol in the gun debate before! You’re a genius!
If all gun-related injuries were self-inflicted, they might be treated the same as acute alcohol poisoning.
Of course we try to regulate booze. If memory serves, there one was an attempt to pretty much prohibit it entirely.
If you point that bottle of gin at me, you’d better be prepared to use it.
Well, I hate “gunman” too, but mainly on grammatical grounds. Apparently, if a person picks up a gun, they are no longer a person but some weird machine-biological hybrid. A man who is a gun, or something. And what about gunwomen? We never seem to hear about them.
OK, I see why people might accuse me of overthinking things at times.
Interesting, but the conclusion (“people should be strongly discouraged from keeping guns in their homes”) doesn’t follow from the results of the study.
If they had said “people should be strongly discouraged from keeping guns in their homes for protection”, then I would be okay with it.
I have guns. They’re locked in a safe in the basement The ammunition is locked in another, separately keyed, part of the safe. The keys are kept securely, far away from the safe. I have no fantasies of using a gun to protect my home or family, it’s highly unlikely to occur and it would require an extremely patient intruder.
So, no one in my family is going to be shooting anyone else, my kids aren’t going to find a gun and shoot anyone or themselves with it, and I’m not increasing the number of guns in my community.
I agree that keeping a loaded gun around is likely to increase your chances of dying by gunshot. Keeping loaded or easily accessible firearms and ammunition around* should *be discouraged. Issuing a blanket statement discouraging ownership of firearms seems a stretch.
There’ve been a number of other gun owners who did the same thing and *thought *the same thing, but turned out to be wrong.
You may be correct that a different study that looks at the effectiveness of various storage methods might not find the same increase in risk for people such as yourself. However…
While I applaud your use of proper gun storage, your gun safe is not magic. This thread is rife with examples of people who followed all of the proper gun safety rules up until they didn’t. You could still become depressed and choose to kill yourself, or kill a family member in a fit of rage. Your spouse could swipe your keys and kill you in a fit of rage. Your kids could steal your keys and accidentally shoot themselves or a friend, or you could accidentally shoot a family member when retrieving the gun from the safe or returning it after normal use.
I don’t know if any of these scenarios are likely, but the sentence I quoted reeks so much of the “I never thought it could happen to me” attitude that is present in so many of the stories posted here where a gun owner let their guard down for 30 seconds while a toddler grabbed a gun that they forgot to unload.
I don’t believe “it can’t happen to me”, but rather “I’ve taken enough precautions to prevent it from happening to me”.
I learned these lessons the hard way. When I was 12 I figured out where my dad kept his .22 pistol, the magazine, and the ammo, even though he had them in 3 separate places. I put them all together and, luckily, accidentally shot our television. I say “luckily” because any other day it could have been a friend, my sister, or myself.
Trust me when I say no one is going to find the keys to my gun safe. My wife doesn’t even want to know.
So gun suicides don’t count right?
And if you could pass a constitutional amendment to ban guns, I think you would have done it already. But please go ahead and try, it doesn’t mean that we have to go along with you.
Day one of Georgia’s new “Guns Everywhere” law, and we already have a good guy confrontation. Guess he hadn’t heard that nobody (including the police) is allowed to ask someone to show their firearms permit. Honor system, you know.
No blaze of glory this time. Sorry, freedom-lovers. 
Won’t be long, though! 
And this is a direct result of the fact that the State of Georgia requires no firearm training to issue a license.
It’s recommended but not required to take a firearms course which covers (among other things), the laws relating to carrying and using a firearm in public.
And that’s just sheer stupidity.
That convenience store clerk probably never felt safer in his life.
The only thing that will stop a bad guy with a howitzer is a good guy with a howitzer.
The Mythbusters have stepped up their game.
The provisions recently enacted in Georgia and derided as the “Guns Everwhere” law is substantially identical to the carry law that’s been in place in Minnesota for several years now. If you’re a permit holder in Minnesota it is not illegal to carry in a bar, a church, a private college or any other private property unless the owners choose to ban guns, and then a first offense is only misdemeanor trespass. Carrying without permission at a public primary or secondary school is illegal but principals can issue written permission on a case-by-case basis. Carry is permitted in many government buildings, and others would allow carry by prior notification, except that currently court orders circumventing the carry law are in place in many MN counties.
In short, Minnesota has carry laws that gun-control advocates insist would be Wild West anarchy. And nothing has happened.
Ikea enforces “No Guns” policy- against town police chief:
Attackers call 911 to report victim fired gun:
What’s the perfect backdrop to combine gun-carry advocacy and denunciation of the President as an illegitimate interloper who should be removed?
Bonus points for this cogent observation (starting at about 4:05 in the video).
The stoopid… it burns… it burnsssss usssssss…
Apparently property really is theft, and you need a gun to defend your right to trespass.
But it’s OK, because he’s law enforcement trained, and therefore can be absolutely trusted.