atctimmy

I talked with a co-worker today for about 90 minutes. We talked about ccw and firearms in general. After an hour of usless back and forth chatter I finally went to the computer and googled some numbers. This is what I found ( and these all pertain to our argument)

1. In 2002 ( the year that I was able to get stats): 49000+ were killed by cars (crashes or hit by a car).
17000+ people died from falling (ladders, stairs etc.). 3500+ people died from drowning. 3200+ people died of medical malpractice.
776 (only 86 of them children 14 or under)people died in the US from accidental gun shots a percentage of .8% of accidental deaths. Note: accidental deaths only make up about 20% of total deaths.


2. About 1 child per 1,000,000 guns in the US dies each year due to accidental shooting. About 1 child dies each year per 11,000 swimming pools.

Statistcally speaking guns are far less dangerous than cars, ladders and pools not by a little but by about 1000%.

My co-worker then says to me "Yeah but we should still get rid of them anyway" or words to that affect. I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW PEOPLE CAN'T SEE THE TRUTH WHEN IT'S RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM.

__________________
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of
chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! - I know not what course others
may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
- Patrick Henry

realitycramp

Unfortunately I have had similar conversations with people who appear to be normal and sane otherwise. When it comes to emotional "liberal" causes like gun control, the truth no longer matters.

__________________
Facts are negotiable, perceptions are not.

Zach and Holly

Guns are scary and people see too many movies. Good effort just the same though...

__________________
Isn't carrying a gun a little overkill? Paranoid? When you need it, and don't have it, you sing a different tune.

kaz

I'm gonna try to remember those numbers. Thanks.

gg12

Yes, but cars, ladders, and swimming pools all have other purposes than to kill things. People who do not shoot do not really believe that target shooting or hunting are fun. They seem to think we do those things because we are mentally impaired and are compelled by our illness to target shoot or hunt innocent, cute, loveable animals as the foreplay for going on a mass murdering rampage.

1911packer

In a liberal's perfect world, there would be no firearms. Then the weak, old and small would be preyed upon by the strong and healthy.

Natural selection would then apply to humans. Is that what they want?

__________________
Observations on Political and Social Insanity

johnsr

a lib is being held up by a BG with a knife. Lib tells BG sure am glad you arent using a GUN. I hate those things.

stormbringerr

there you have it.the rational thinking of the brady bunch..

__________________
later ,Stormbringerr

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order..
.Carl Jung

------------------------------------------------------

SubNine

In a perfect world, where everyone got along, and animals never attacked humans, I wouldn't see a need to use firearms other than for punching holes in paper. Such is definitely not the case in today's reality. I personally would rather be shot than stabbed. Knives and blunt objects tend to make more of a mess than bullets. The anti-gun liberals live in a fantasy world blinded by emotion, and the media. I've tried arguing points and have shown hard evidence to a few anti-gun liberals, but they still don't get it.

__________________
Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.

JusticeDun

Liberals don't like to argue facts, just feelings.