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Originally Posted by dacia
If you never hear about that fact then what evidence do you have to back that claim?
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Here's a good start. Let me know if you'd like more. I have a LOT more.
http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcdguse.html
http://www.pulpless.com/gunclock/stats.html
http://www.pulpless.com/gunclock/peer.html
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/493636.html
http://www.pulpless.com/gunclock/kleck1.html
http://teapot.usask.ca/cdn-firearms/Buckner/Chapter%2010.htm
http://tafkac.org/death/gun_stats_dept_of_justice.html
http://www.users.fast.net/~behanna/kasler.html
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/guns.htm
http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/Chronicles/October2003/1003Kopel.html
http://www.cato.org/dailys/04-20-02.html
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Originally Posted by dacia
According to Canadian laws (US laws may be different), your gun supposed to be locked away in safe storage separate from its ammunition, can only be transported to the shooting range with the appropriate permission from the police. How were you able to threaten the criminal with your gun when it was safely locked away?
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There are no such ridiculous laws here. A gun is USELESS for self-defense if it is locked, not quickly accessible to the owner, and/or physically separated from ammunition.
I store my weapon safely, but when I am home, or traveling with it, it is CLOSE to me, LOADED, and NOT trigger-locked.
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Originally Posted by dacia
You look at it as a self defense instrument I look at it as a murder waiting to happen.
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Perhaps you don't trust yourself not to "murder" someone with a handgun... But I have no such insecurities. I am quite confident that I will not "murder" anyone with it, and I am also quite certain that my gun is incapable of murdering anyone on its own, so... I'm not worried.
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Originally Posted by dacia
Most of those murdered in the mentioned massacres would be alive today had in not been for the gun manufacturers and the gun lobby.
People sue cigarette makers for damages, they sure as hell should sue gun manufacturers for wrongful deaths.
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No, most of those victims would be alive today if it weren't for the ACTIONS OF THE PERPETRATOR.
A gun is an inanimate object. Guns to do get up and go out to kill people. PEOPLE do.
The lawsuits against cigarette makers are absurd... No one is FORCED to smoke.
Equally ridiculous is the concept of suing a manufacturer for the actions of some random individual.
I don't know what kind of nonsense you guys are up to in Canada... but HERE, many of us still want to hold INDIVIDUALS responsible for their OWN actions.
And lastly... You should look into the definitions of "attributable" and "contributable"... I don't think "contributable" is even a word....
Mike