Gun Control & RKBA

SecularMotion

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20. I'm not deflecting

Mon Jul 24, 2017, 12:52 PM

Jul 2017

You're attempting to use the "event" to promote gun ownership and keeping firearms in the home.

I've posted an "event" showing the negative results of keeping a gun in the home.

Myth #5: Keeping a gun at home makes you safer.

Fact-check: Owning a gun has been linked to higher risks of homicide, suicide, and accidental death by gun.
• For every time a gun is used in self-defense in the home, there are 7 assaults or murders, 11 suicide attempts, and 4 accidents involving guns in or around a home.
• 43 percent of homes with guns and kids have at least one unlocked firearm.
• In one experiment, one third of 8-to-12-year-old boys who found a handgun pulled the trigger.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/pro-gun-myths-fact-check/

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17 yr. old woman defends herself from criminal on the run [View all] pablo_marmol Jul 2017 OP

Not so sure sleeping with a gun under the pillow is cool. Throck Jul 2017 #1

Same thing occurred to me. Not the best plan. NT pablo_marmol Jul 2017 #3

DA/SA is your friend. ileus Jul 2017 #7

GUN HUMPING AMMOSEXUAL COWARD sarisataka Jul 2017 #2

"She endangered everyone within a two mile radius......." pablo_marmol Jul 2017 #4

Quander was an incompetent hack: friendly_iconoclast Jul 2017 #6

Red Alert Politics is a right-wing site- here's a link to the original story they cribbed: friendly_iconoclast Jul 2017 #5

Thanks FI.......NT pablo_marmol Jul 2017 #8

LOL, gun under pillow, smart gun owner?? NOT! n/t USALiberal Jul 2017 #9

Red Alert Politics?? SecularMotion Jul 2017 #10

That's rich coming from someone sarisataka Jul 2017 #11

Analogous, I suppose, to opposing a Democrat if (s)he is pro-gun. discntnt_irny_srcsm Jul 2017 #13

Or supporting a Republican sarisataka Jul 2017 #14

Any posts I've made with links to RW sites SecularMotion Jul 2017 #15

If I understand correctly sarisataka Jul 2017 #17

Did you know they make small wheelchairs for children? SecularMotion Jul 2017 #18

I am aware, I worked sarisataka Jul 2017 #19

I'm not deflecting SecularMotion Jul 2017 #20

I am promoting nothing sarisataka Jul 2017 #21

Why did she use such foul language? SecularMotion Jul 2017 #22

That's all you've got? sarisataka Jul 2017 #23

So you're saying an armed society is a rude society? SecularMotion Jul 2017 #24

I am saying I am glad the child victim sarisataka Jul 2017 #25

It's precisely the type of disingenuous "argument"........ pablo_marmol Jul 2017 #28

Silence speaks loudly sarisataka Jul 2017 #35

Heinlein melm00se Jul 2017 #37

Correct sarisataka Jul 2017 #38

"Why did she use such foul language?" pablo_marmol Jul 2017 #29

"What could be more pathetic than the idea the criminals need to be protected from foul language?" friendly_iconoclast Jul 2017 #39

You've lost credibility and the argument Alea Jul 2017 #30

I'm unsure as to whether 'Pecksniffian' or 'pharisaical' best describes that post friendly_iconoclast Jul 2017 #40

I think it's great... discntnt_irny_srcsm Jul 2017 #12

No, I think RW gun nuts and their agenda fall under "extreme fringe" SecularMotion Jul 2017 #16

If what I say is actually alertable, please proceed discntnt_irny_srcsm Jul 2017 #31

"Isn't always better to allow for open discussion?" Alea Jul 2017 #34

Oh wow, I think we need the feds to start counting stuff like this ExciteBike66 Jul 2017 #26

Already been done. pablo_marmol Jul 2017 #27

"...worth it..."??? Really??? discntnt_irny_srcsm Jul 2017 #32

Amazing.....yes? pablo_marmol Jul 2017 #36

There have been several studies, some funded by the feds during the so called gejohnston Jul 2017 #33