Um... the question was 'how many were harmed by their own gun'...
If you're having trouble with hitting your targets, maybe you should get a riding mower... or a robotic one... 
@bidicus*maximus wrote:Um... the question was 'how many were harmed by their own gun'...
If you're having trouble with hitting your targets, maybe you should get a riding mower... or a robotic one...
Well - as you couldn't answer that one I moved on to the alternate ' weapons '.
I have no trouble hitting my targets - as do you :
Oh - have a ride on - it aims at & scatters the horse pooo.
And the best I can do with the robots is 2 vacuums.
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And you thought you had difficulty choosing in Bunnings.
@bidicus*maximus wrote:
So, 350 million guns... as if the exact number makes much difference... one owner usually only fires one at a time.
There is a vast difference between millions of guns and even 10 million guns but 350 million is over 35 times that amount and completely over the top and obscene for any country and points to a big gun control problem that now and in the future will have a devastating effect on the ordinary citizens in the US.
So all those killings where the nutters used semi automatic weapons or used multiple guns to kill people are going to miraculously stop because one owner will only fire one at a time and kill dozens of people but that's fine as he's only using one at a time.
Is the US that desensitised with gun use that they don't care or regard the 30.000 killed each just a part of gun ownership?
I believe that taking away somone's legally acquired gun collection would be as wrong as taking away their legally acquired knife, coin or stamp collection.
Coins and stamps aren't used to kill people like guns and knives are used to kill.
In the past most mass killers seem to have acquired their guns legally and so by all means allow people to have as many guns as they want and because you can't sort out the nutters amongst them let them have lots as well (no one needs lots of guns for any reason and any one that does could also become a target and then those guns could be in the hands of nutters.
New laws based on the wishful thinking that 350 million guns will just go away seems silly when we could instead focus on laws to punish and/or deter those who might wrongfully use their guns.
No,just simple laws to remove the automatic,semi automatic and anything else that is seen as not needed by an ordinary citizen for defencive use or hunting.
Not policing the control over being allowed more then two guns will one day cause a huge problem and it means members of any radical group combined between them could have/own thousands of guns and if they ever went nuts you would have a blood bath.
What really has me baffled, however, is this... Why on Earth are people who don't live in the US so concerned about our laws? I couldn't care less about your laws, and wouldn't presume to tell you how you should live.
Those people are concerned about the innocent deaths that are caused by those guns each year and unlike
the US who seem to think that's just part of gun ownership and don't seem to give a damn and they will do
everything they can to protect their right to bear arms and hang the consequences even though that wasn't
how and why the founding fathers wrote it out that way.
I still reckon that somewhere along the line the gun lobby will get the 2nd amendment changed and remove the
part about the militia so it will be more in line with what they want it to mean.
350 million guns for use by a completely untrained non existent militia is a lot of guns to protect their own
borders especially when they have the armed forces that do a better job of it and are trained.
