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Your edit doesn't answer the question. Your evasion is answer enough
What evasion ?
Your edit doesn't answer the question. Your evasion is answer enough
Let me google that for youTheir tiny military must be darned careless then given its been at peace for 300 years ! :lol: .Please prove that this is indeed so ?
Um excuse me but long guns aren't relevant to this discussion either. OP is about a handgun in a purse. I am more than willing to follow you as far down the rabbit hole as you want to go, and right now you just made war part of the total death-by-gun count.To the best of my knowledge the only deaths from gunfire in the British army last year were in conflicts abroad and are hardly relevant to the discussion. Any such accidental deaths are rare and always make the headlines here when they happen
No you made the assertion I didn't. I'm calling BS on it and I now dare you to prove your point
Um excuse me but long guns aren't relevant to this discussion either. OP is about a handgun in a purse. I am more than willing to follow you as far down the rabbit hole as you want to go, and right now you just made war part of the total death-by-gun count.
Would you like to keep going down your slippery slope or shale we stick to the OP about legally carried concealed handguns?
I linked to the information you asked for.No you made the assertion I didn't. I'm calling BS on it and I now dare you to prove your point
Everything you've posted has been shot down by nearly everyone else on this thread. Yeah you talk allot, but you say very little.I've already posted far more than you have that is relevant to the OP
I linked to the information you asked for.
Everything you've posted has been shot down by nearly everyone else on this thread. Yeah you talk allot, but you say very little
Yup, just click the link I provided and you'll have all the information on the Switzerland military and why they don't maintain ranks but rely on a militia. It's the same model the United States was supposed to follow and is why we have our 2nd Amendment in the first place for gun ownership to be a topic today.Nope
Which is why most of your posts are junk.And highly subjective opinions mean little when countered by linked facts
Yup, just click the link I provided and you'll have all the information on the Switzerland military and why they don't maintain ranks but rely on a militia. It's the same model the United States was supposed to follow and is why we have our 2nd Amendment in the first place for gun ownership to be a topic today.
You obviously didn't digest the link, as usual.This does not assert that Swiss firearm casualties are due to military activity ! The British army hasn't had 239 killed by firearms in non conflict activities since WW2 yet you are asserting the far smaller Swiss army has managed to do this to itself in just a year !
Just how desperate are you ! :lamo
You obviously didn't digest the link, as usual.
Good morning :2wave:
Switzerland has a very high rate of legal gun ownership (almost certainly higher than in the even most legal US state) yet you are still 17 times more likely to be killed by a gun there than in the UK
I couldn't care less. those with hoplophobia ignore all the benefits of gun ownership
LOL.
That sounds similar to what an alcoholic says when confronted with the facts of his drinking.
Man- you guys are getting dismantled by flogger while simultaneously declaring your imminent victory.
LOL.
That sounds similar to what an alcoholic says when confronted with the facts of his drinking.
Man- you guys are getting dismantled by flogger while simultaneously declaring your imminent victory.
Switzerland has a very high rate of legal gun ownership (almost certainly higher than in the even most legal US state) yet you are still 17 times more likely to be killed by a gun there than in the UK
As a female at home concerned with personal safety consider this. In 2010, nearly 6 times more women were shot by husbands, boyfriends, and ex-partners than murdered by male strangers.
A woman's chances of being killed by her abuser increase more than 7 times if he has access to a gun.
One study found that women in states with higher gun ownership rates were 4.9 times more likely to be murdered by a gun than women in states with lower gun ownership rates.
http://www.vpc.org/studies/wmmw2012.pdf
Risk Factors for Femicide in Abusive Relationships: Results From a Multisite Case Control Study
Firearm availability and suicide, homicide, and unintentional firearm deaths among women
If that were really so then it would not have posted such a deliberately misleading chart :roll:
Did you even try to do the math using the figures from your own chart vs population ?
LOL.
That sounds similar to what an alcoholic says when confronted with the facts of his drinking.
Man- you guys are getting dismantled by flogger while simultaneously declaring your imminent victory.
I took training that I paid for. Voluntarily. So 'why is training offered at all' is one of the least intelligent things I've read here yet. People do want training. People do pay for it or get it in other ways.
Again, we're talking about mandatory training and why it needs to be mandated if there's no evidence that training is lacking? And if you dont believe there's no data to support it, please find some. (Obviously I cant find something that doesnt exist but in many discussions on gun forums where there are gun owners that believe as you do....none has turned up.)
I love that you miss the entire point I was making...AGAIN. No one...and this is where you screwed up with Capt. Courtesy...EVER said that training wasnt a good idea. My point is that there is no evidence that mandating training would make any difference. So why impose more govt and more $$ and more restrictions on people? Man, I ****ing HATE 'feel good' legislation that actually means nothing.
Says training is useful.
Then says training is not useful.
Holding two opposing thoughts in ones mind is a cause of cognitive dissonance, you know.
You said training doesn't change anything.
Sorry if I interpreted that as 'not useful'.
I guess people will get dhot by toddlers anyway and then reflect upon their lapsed training?
Nope. You cannot read properly. Please show, in a quoted post, where I EVER wrote that.
I said that 'mandatory/mandated training has not been shown to make any difference over voluntary training. Again, you cannot process words properly as your exchange with Capt Courtesy also showed.
You seem to be unable to differentiate between mandatory and voluntary. Do you need a dictionary?
But anyway, you now lie or are seriously mistaken. Please post where I said training was not useful?
Speaking of alcoholics who dont admit when they have a problem, did you return to apologize or admit you were wrong pretty much every time you read my posts and responded regarding mandatory and voluntary training? Would you still like me to clarify it for you? You seem to have been left out of the discussion.
I asked you to post the quotes where you said I made claims that training was not beneficial...and you did not. The assumption then is you lied.
More slicing and dicing and parsing.
You said mandatory training is not beneficial in terms of reducing accidents. But somehow, magicallly, voluntary training is beneficial.
Therefore, I think we can say that you think training is not beneficial, since you have this belief that teaching people things only works when its voluntary.
Its your silly position, not mine.
And duh, your dont have gun crime because....the UK doesnt have guns.
We've told you this....in the US it is almost totally concentrated in socio-economically challenged areas and you are trying to apply it to the country *overall.*
More slicing and dicing and parsing.
You said mandatory training is not beneficial in terms of reducing accidents. But somehow, magicallly, voluntary training is beneficial.
Therefore, I think we can say that you think training is not beneficial, since you have this belief that teaching people things only works when its voluntary.
Its your silly position, not mine.
Well done ! You see you really can get there when you try
Yet you feel the need to arm yourself allegedly against multiple intruders in a non inner city rural area. What a terrifying place you seem to live in. I'd hate to live in a country that is so afraid of itself
In future if I were you I'd stick to ad hom attacks ignoring or dismissing all contrarian responses and endlessly repeating yourself :lol: