Not to keen on your source, but it doesn't matter, I wasn't the one making the claims.
On the contrary you are at far greater risk then I
Nonsense. statistically removing the criminal element, I am in no greater danger than you.
Furthermore, if I live in such a dangerous society and we should ban guns, perhaps after you get them out of the hands of the criminals killing each other, we can open a dialog.
if the wolf is knocking at my door as you seem to imply, why the **** would I give up my gun?
I broke my promise not to argue gun control on the internet, these have all been addressed and dealt with over and over again, I won't waste my time debunking or putting into perspective this hoplophobic statist propaganda.
Bend the figures whichever way you want but you are hugely more likely to be shot than I am and most likely from your own gun by someone who knows you using it
Being huge in the gun culture myself, from being in the military, a contractor a tactical firearms instructor, to a moderator on the largest carbine forum on the internet, why is it, I can't recall this nonsense ever happening to any of the thousands of people I am acquainted with?
What percentage of your 30,000 gun deaths and 100,000 non lethal shootings per annum were defensive ? I'd wager your offensive and accidental shootings outnumber your defensive ones by at least 50 to 1
*sigh*
* Guns are used 2.5 million times a year in self-defense. Law-abiding citizens use guns to defend themselves against criminals as many as 2.5 million times every year—or about 6,850 times a day.(1) This means that each year, firearms are used more than 80 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives.(2)
* Even anti-gun Clinton researchers concede that guns are used 1.5 million times annually for self-defense. According to the Clinton Justice Department, there are as many as 1.5 million cases of self-defense with a firearm every year. The National Institute of Justice published this figure in 1997 as part of "Guns in America"—a study which was authored by noted anti-gun criminologists Philip Cook and Jens Ludwig.(3)
* Concealed carry laws have reduced murder and crime rates in the states that have enacted them. According to a comprehensive study which reviewed crime statistics in every county in the United States from 1977 to 1992, states which passed concealed carry laws reduced their rate of murder by 8.5%, rape by 5%, aggravated assault by 7% and robbery by 3%.(4)
* Anti-gun journal pronounces the failure of the Brady law. One of the nation’s leading anti-gun medical publications, the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that the Brady registration law has failed to reduce murder rates. In August 2000, JAMA reported that states implementing waiting periods and background checks did "not [experience] reductions in homicide rates or overall suicide rates."(5)
* Twice as many children are killed playing football in school than are murdered by guns. That’s right. Despite what media coverage might seem to indicate, there are more deaths related to high school football than guns. In a recent three year period, twice as many football players died from hits to the head, heat stroke, etc. (45), as compared with students who were murdered by firearms (22) during that same time period.(6)
GOA fact sheet.
Yes indeed Wokingham is a fine place to live ,but the first 35 years of my life I lived in Kilmarnock recently voted the worst place to live in Scotland (by all means look that up too if you want) so I'm well aware of life at both ends of the socio economic spectrum in the UK
Not sure how that changes my point. *shrug*