On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh, hey, what do you know? There's actually scientific data showing that > having > lots of guns around is a bad idea ... > > http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=gun-science-proves-arming- > untrained-citizens-bad-idea When I lived in Georgia in the 1990s, one of its counties passed an ordnance requiring all citizens own a gun. Around the same time, a county in Chicago passed a ordinance banning guns. Do you want to take a guess at which county experienced an increase in crime, and which experienced a decrease?
ARTICLE> Consider a 1998 study in the Journal of Trauma and Acute ARTICLE> Care Surgery that found that “every time a gun in the home ARTICLE> was used in a self-defense or legally justifiable shooting, ARTICLE> there were four unintentional shootings, seven criminal ARTICLE> assaults or homicides, and 11 attempted or completed ARTICLE> suicides.” Stepping out of society via suicide is every person's right, regardless of what the states say (remember, many are they same states that murder its citizens with a death penalty). As for assaults and homicides - ATF's Project Gunrunner FTW? Anyway, the debate is not a religion to me as long as I can own one to rise against the government if needed. I don't care much about hunting :) Jeff _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
