Stop using guns to kill things!

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Hey, you ever heard of targeting the eyes, throat, and groin?

and then bite of his cock and crush balls...

you can't even identify the most obvious holes in the attacker's security?

You mentioned that rapists don't walk around with a "going for rape" sign. Well neither do career criminals walk around with a "going for robbery" sign

40% of all robberies are strong armed, so do you really expect anyone to feel safe being at the mercy of them? With all your guilt tripping BS about us being "happy" with gun deaths, you seem to be perfectly happy with leaving robbery victims defenseless and betting their safety on being part of the 60% so don't f***ing tell us how we're supposed to feel.

you seem to be perfectly happy with leaving robbery victims defenseless

if he leaves your insult unanswered.

This may reflect poorly on my parenting skills, but this is EXACTLY the same mentality I have when my two oldest children get into a fight. My USUAL response is to stay out of it. They're siblings. Let THEM sort it out. They'll have an even deeper appreciation of each other when they're adults and will be more adept at sorting things out with others because of all the pressure they put on each other.

Besides, it's just flat-out funny. I just want to lay back in a recliner with a bag of microwave popcorn to see who wins. It's better than truTV, Smoking Gun's "World's Dumbest..." I only get involved if it appears someone is about to lose an eye or get a limb severed. I don't want them to end up like my dad and his sister.

True story: My father and aunt were playing out in my grandfather's tool shed once when my dad cut her finger off with a hatchet. That kind of thing with my own kids would be my worst nightmare. It's frightening just watching my daughter wield a butter knife. No sharp objects for her...

Homicide and suicide risks associated with firearms in the home: a national case-control study.
Wiebe DJ.
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Violence Prevention Research Group, University of California-Los Angeles School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA. [email protected]
Abstract
STUDY OBJECTIVE:

I test the hypothesis that having a gun in the home is a risk factor for adults to be killed (homicide) or to commit suicide.
METHODS:

Two case-control analyses were based on national samples of subjects 18 years of age or older. Homicide and suicide case subjects were drawn from the 1993 National Mortality Followback Survey. Living control subjects were drawn from the 1994 National Health Interview Survey. Ten control subjects matched by sex, race, and age group were sought for each case subject.
RESULTS:

The homicide sample consisted of 1,720 case subjects and 8,084 control subjects. Compared with adults in homes with no guns, the adjusted odds ratio (OR) for homicide was 1.41 (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.20 to 1.65) for adults with a gun at home and was particularly high among women (adjusted OR 2.72; 95% CI 1.89 to 3.90) compared with men (adjusted OR 1.23; 95% CI 1.01 to 1.49) and among nonwhite subjects (adjusted OR 1.74; 95% CI 1.37 to 2.21) compared with white subjects (adjusted OR 1.27; 95% CI 1.03 to 1.56). Further analyses revealed that a gun in the home was a risk factor for homicide by firearm means (adjusted OR 1.72; 95% CI 1.40 to 2.12) but not by nonfirearm means (OR 0.83; 95% CI 0.62 to 1.11). The suicide sample consisted of 1,959 case subjects and 13,535 control subjects. The adjusted OR for suicide was 3.44 (95% CI 3.06 to 3.86) for persons with a gun at home. However, further analysis revealed that having a firearm in the home was a risk factor for suicide by firearm (adjusted OR 16.89; 95% CI 13.26 to 21.52) but was inversely associated with suicide by other means (adjusted OR 0.68; 95% CI 0.55 to 0.84).
CONCLUSION:

Having a gun at home is a risk factor for adults to be shot fatally (gun homicide) or commit suicide with a firearm. Physicians should continue to discuss with patients the implications of keeping guns at home. Additional studies are warranted to address study limitations and to better understand the implications of firearm ownership.

Number 4: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12764330
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bolding mine.

Number 4: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12764330
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bolding mine.

Having a gun in the home increases suicides by firearm compared to not having a gun at home. Having a pool or spa at home increases drownings compared to people with a plain dirt yard. People that regularly keep a box of twinkies in the house are more likely to need bariatric surgery than those who don't eat twinkies. People that fly on small planes or commuter planes are more likely to die in a plane crash than people that sit around watching Oprah. People with a playboy magazine in the house are found to be more prone to repetitive injuries than people without a playboy magazine in the house.

This once again comes back around to bad relationships. If those women ditched the drunks and a**holes and found better mates, they would have happier relationships and their only worry about getting shot by their mate is in the eye in the bedroom on occasion!

Read the methodology closely.
They didn't research how many gun owners were victims of violent crimes, they started with the victims and worked their way backwards into gun ownership, skewing their results. I've been debunking some version of this "study" for years, quite a few different groups have put forward versions over the years, always with slightly different numbers but always with the same flawed survey method, because it produces the results they want. It's not really research, it's propaganda.

Two case-control analyses were based on national samples of subjects 18 years of age or older. Homicide and suicide case subjects were drawn from the 1993 National Mortality Followback Survey. Living control subjects were drawn from the 1994 National Health Interview Survey. Ten control subjects matched by sex, race, and age group were sought for each case subject.

Number 4: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12764330
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bolding mine.

People who make this argument are adorable. It's like they are permanently stuck in the eighteenth century.

When the aircraft carriers start launching unmanned drones, never fear! We'll fight them off with our handguns.

Sure:




I do. But the average women we are talking about don't. Don't know what kind of average women you meet, obviously not the same kind I do. Without proper basic selfdefence training, saying a woman "go for eyes and throat" has no real effect. Some of them scratch eyes instinctively during fight, but that is not enough and causes only the more serious consequences I mentioned before. They do not have the necessary aggression and skills to overwhelm an attacker with single action. Once again, I am talking about an average woman without practice here.



Sure. But as I said, it is possible to prepare for it. What's so irritating about it? But there is difference between you and me in methods. You advocate guns=reaction, I prefer prevention.



What safety is there standing in front of a strong armed robber with gun under the desk??? It is playing russian roulette, has nothing to do with safety.



I am perfectly unhappy to see your ignorance about any defence mechanism I mention. You seem to consider gun as the only one. Well, your loss.


I never said you should insult anyone. If you see he is an amateur and you feel you should overwhelm/discourage him, do it. If not, don't and obey everything he says. Simple as that. Don't know what you imagined there.