Gun Control Reform Activism

nonoyes

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20. I would expect gun advocates to post a daily list, too

Thu Mar 21, 2013, 06:22 AM

Mar 2013

of all those one or two incidents in the USA where a person with a gun was made safer and kept alive and well by his/her gun.

Unfortunately, I doubt they want to go that far, and find out those incidents are probably in the dozens per year, versus the dozens of murders and suicides by gun each and every week in this nation.

But I sure would like to see the raw numbers of people per year whose lives were saved because they had a gun, used a gun, showed a gun, or even just claimed they had a gun. I'm willing to bet that number is comparatively tiny compared to the number of suicides by gunshot each and every year.

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Another day in the (gun crazy) U.S.A. [View all] Bjorn Against Mar 2013 OP

I drove by the vehicle procession today for the VPSO killed. Arctic Dave Mar 2013 #1

This is the country we live in ellisonz Mar 2013 #2

Christ on a cracker! What is wrong with this country? jeffrey_pdx Mar 2013 #3

Damn! Hoyt Mar 2013 #4

Guns make us safer, remember? SheilaT Mar 2013 #5

Guns only make you "safer" if you have one in your time of need. ManiacJoe Mar 2013 #8

Do you have any evidence to actually back that up? ellisonz Mar 2013 #9

Lots of real-world evidence being reported by the mass media all the time. ManiacJoe Mar 2013 #10

So in short ellisonz Mar 2013 #11

You have been here long enough to have adequate ... ManiacJoe Mar 2013 #12

And there's lots of real world evidence to support the opposite conclusion ellisonz Mar 2013 #13

At this point I have to ask: ManiacJoe Mar 2013 #14

That a gun even in "a time of need" may very well make you less safe... ellisonz Mar 2013 #15

When you say ManiacJoe Mar 2013 #16

Maniac Joe is a gun nut abelenkpe Mar 2013 #18

Why are you arguing with someone abelenkpe Mar 2013 #19

Practice. ellisonz Mar 2013 #26

OK :) You're doing good. abelenkpe Mar 2013 #27

I would expect gun advocates to post a daily list, too nonoyes Mar 2013 #20

As a group at DU, we don't find the media listings that useful. ManiacJoe Mar 2013 #21

You speak for the entire group? What "group"? nonoyes Mar 2013 #22

My interpretation of the group behavior and posts. ManiacJoe Mar 2013 #23

^^^^ ellisonz Mar 2013 #28

Wrong. DanTex Mar 2013 #24

Sure, and the bad guys won't train because Progressive dog Mar 2013 #25

Thanks, gun toting death fetishists. mwrguy Mar 2013 #6

More than 1 million Americans have been killed by guns BainsBane Mar 2013 #7

'Now, don't go all emotional hyperbole on us - that only leads to feel-good laws'. jmg257 Mar 2013 #17