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Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn
These type of often quoted anti-gun rights aggregate statistics- even in the rare instances when they are true- are often irrelevant to an individual gun owner. For example, gun control people are quick to tell you that guns are often used in the home by family members in domestic disputes and that you are more likely to be shot with a gun by someone who lives in your own house than by a stranger or that your children are at risk for getting access to your gun and killing themselves or a sibling. But so what? I live by myself, scare mongering statistics like that don't apply to me and the loaded gun I keep within arms reach.
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Originally Posted by kane
Personally, I would never want to live somewhere where I am so afraid I need to keep a loaded gun within arms reach of me at all times.
I think these stats are meant to scare people into not owning guns (although some may wish they did), but they are meant to make things more realistic. Some people allow guns to give them a false sense of security and these stats shed a little light on that.
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that's the amusing part for me here - i read all the time how the country I live in is considered "eastern europe" (with a negative slant), people here called "euro trash" and the overall impression is that here it would be dangerous and backwards.
probably the same people that think Eurotrip and Hostel are documentaries
at the same time no one here would ever even remotely get the idea that one needs a loaded gun in arms reach
and gun laws here are pretty liberal compared to the rest of europe:
Gun politics in the Czech Republic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
still hardly anyone ever gets one
So I assume Czech people have a death wish and don't care about protecting their families