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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
are you looking at the logistics and math of people who defend themselves from home invasions though? i'm not going to deny them the right to keep home-defense carbines so that the media can stop waxing hysterical.
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Please explain to me exactly what the context of a large-caliber, high-powered, or carbine rifle is in self defense? What, from other deranged people who are over-armed? Hence the circle, reduce the manufacturing and access to such weapons, and people won't need them for defense. Besides of which and again, these weapons were designed by the military as assault weapons, that means forward attacks, not defense. The carbine rifle, the AR-15, the SKS/AK-47 were NOT designed for defense. EVERY SINGLE ASPECT AND FACET of their design and manufacturing is for forward combat, including their weight, accuracy, firing range, caliber, etc etc..
Self-defense = small arms and pistols, maybe a shotgun or a rifle. Anything else is just silly to try with a straight face to call it self defense..
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Originally Posted by tesla69
It’s true: You are 64 times more likely to be killed by your doctor than by someone else wielding a gun. That’s because 19,766 of the total 31,940 gun deaths in the USA (in the year 2011) were suicides. So the actual number of deaths from other people shooting you is only 12,174.
Doctors, comparatively, kill 783,936 people each year, which is 64 times higher than 12,174. Doctors shoot you not with bullets, but with vaccines, chemotherapy and pharmaceuticals… all of which turn out to be FAR more deadly than guns.
www.naturalnews.com/Infographic-Firearms-vs-Doctors-Drugs.html
crazy if true. 40K people die in car accidents every year but that is ok for some reason. no talk of banning cars.
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(a) just because the American medical system is frighteningly dangerous doesn't negate the tandem dangers of violence in a society saturated with fire-arms, particularly exceptionally dangerous ones above and beyond "self-defense"
(b) Car accidents are just that, accidents. Guns kill people intentionally, a world of ethical difference there.
Further, CARS ARE HEAVILY REGULATED FOR SAFETY. Their design, manufacturing, sales, and ownership are ALL HEAVILY REGULATED FOR PUBLIC SAFETY. Can a small child legally purchase a vehicle in the US? No. Can a auto manufacture produce a vehicle without legally specified safety features? No.
Lord Jesus people, the NRA sure has embedded a fear-mongering culture in America
