The question to ask the gun control crowd is “what are they afraid of” ??
Lets take some conservative numbers here and look at their argument. Mind you, I am not mathematician or statistical wizrd, hell I gtot a D in college in the one statiustics class I took.
The following are all in simple terms but compared apples to apples. Wait till I am done to tell me how flawed that is.
There are more than 100 Million legally owned firearms in the US.
Lets take the number of all firearms deaths ( murders, criminal acts resulting in death) in 2005 I found 10,000 or so. That’s a rate of .0001% of all legally owned firearms used in murders if we used the number of legal guns as a baseline.
Now, we all know that almost all crime is committed with illegal guns so the actual per cent age is even smaller. For all you guys that rode the short bus, that’s one ten thousandth of a per cent.
Now lets apply that same comparative logic to alcohol and automobiles. Hmmm????
According to Wikianswers, there are about 125 Million cars on the road in the US.
In 2008 37,000 people died in car accidents. That equates to a rate of .000296% death rate for all legally owned automobiles in the US. While that seems to be a small percentage, it is 3 times the rate for firearms. Why no measure to restrict car ownership. How about applying the same criteria to purchase a car as we do to purchasing a gun?
85000 alcohol related deaths per year in the US. Take away the approx. 16,000 that are in the auto fatality rate and you have 69,000 per year. People 20 and under make up 28% of the population. The population is about 307 Million. So that means there are about 86 million under 21. this also means there are 221 Million over 21 and all of legal drinking age. About .0003% of all adults involved in deaths by alcohol.
Yes, I know that this is an overly simplistic approach , it doesn’t take a number of factors into account. But it is comparative in that the same basic methodology is used and the results speak for themselves.
My whole point to this goes back to the initial question of “what are they afraid of” ??
If their goal was to reduce deaths, do something about alcohol and cars. Lets not even start on tobacco. Guns pall in comparison to other things as far as terminal results go.
Maybe I am not the sharpest guy and I don’t know statistics and math all that well. But looking at death rates tells me that there are other things out there they should be worrying about more so than guns. That is if their intent is to protect us. But it is more of an excuse to exert control and restrict a large per centage of the population that feels it can take care of itself and doesn’t need the government teat to nurse off of; cradle to grave. The government doesn’t particularly care for those that think for themselves; self determination, independent thought, and all that.
Also makes you wonder why these same people want to protect the rights of foreign combatants and give them the same protection of the US Constitution that we have and they aren’t citizens. HHHmmmm?
All of you brainiacs out there will tear me part on this but it doesn’t take the local Mensa chapter president to figure out that the anti’s agenda isn’t protecting us. Its about protecting them.
So, go ahead boys, flame on.
PS: I have an idea about the prisoners at Gitmo that are being treated so poorly by the US; since the libs feel they are just maybe criminals and not terrorists, maybe each one of the libs, starting with Feinstein and Pelosi can have one released into their custody and kept on home confinement in their households with their families, electronic monitoring and all that. And the residents of San Francisco can all keep one in their homes too since they are such a low threat. Why not. How many do you think would line up to take one home???
I know, this is now becoming a Misfires topic. But , yo know what, its our guns we are talking about.
