You THINK you're safer with more weapons on the streets
If you look at the actual causes of death and injury in the US, it seems that changing the number of guns on the street isn't likely to have much effect on *my* personal risk.
Not sure that's entirely true... as a collective part of the general populace, the odds of your azz getting shot up goes up with every weapon sold
1) Its exactly because my risk is relative to that of the general public that I make my claim.
2) It is fantastically stupid to assume that the *actual* odds of my getting shot increase with each weapon sold. The odds of my *actually* drowning do not increase every time a pool is installed, nor do the odds of my getting hit by a car change in any meaningful way every time a car is sold. Once again you've illustrated a lack of solid reasoning while pushing your anti-gun agenda.
3) As I said - and as your own poster charts indicate - the number of guns on the street does not have much effect on my personal risk.
EACH of the following causes of death pose a GREATER risk than guns do: car accidents, falls, poisoning or drug overdose, vehicle accidents, stroke, cancer and heart disease.
In some cases, the ratio of risk is well over an order of magnitude.
So, like I said: Increasing the number of guns on the street has really no meaningful bearing on my personal risk. Its insane to think otherwise. Its like when 9/11 happened and a lot of people were personally *afraid* of terrorists - its not at all logical.
You seem to be quite devoted to your position on guns. Good luck with that.
The stats are clear, you're on pace and headed for 12000 gun related fatalities this year. More guns, more death!
http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/
Twelve thousand guns deaths divided by Three hundred and thirty million US current population comes to less than 0.0036363636% of the US population.
Malpractice deaths numbering 100,000 per year comes to 0.03030303% of US population.
One should fear their Doctors before private firearms ownership.
