DiscApp ID # 206964
Article ID # 483708
Author jobee
Email john.bishop2@ntlworld.com
IP 86.13.40.114
Date Mon Jan 17, 2011 15:59:25
Subject You're not very bright are you.

I said killed by guns.
80 million are not killed every year. O dear, you love moving the goal posts.

According to a study reported in the Journal of Trauma-Injury, Infection and Critical Care in August 1998, "Guns kept in homes are more likely to be involved in a fatal or nonfatal accidental shooting, criminal assault, or suicide attempt than to be used to injure or kill in self-defense."

Specifically, they found, "...For every one time a gun in the home was used in a self-defense..., there were four unintentional shootings, seven criminal assaults or homicides, and 11 attempted or completed suicides." Put another way, five percent of the time, a gun in the home was used for self-protection; 95 percent of the time it resulted in mayhem.

http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/opinions/letters_to_the_editor/x1500472550/Ramey-Consequences-of-guns-in-homes

http://www.leicestertigers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=31051