[Newbie Wants Info]

"Those with guns typically kill each other."

Well, that's absurd. If you were a "deep woods peckerhead," a "deep barrio greasehead," or a "deep ghetto burrhead" or a "deep cave towelhead" would you go out of your way to shoot armed people? Of course not, you would shoot unarmed people who presented a lesser threat.

That's why the vast majority of shooting victims are unarmed.

More importanly I was really referring to animal species who would be hunted to extinction by gun owners for food. Deer and coyotes are typically unarmed.

[Newbie Wants Info]

You're misreading statistics. All that says is that people are more likely to die by getting shot in the heart than stabbed in the heart. The vast majority of people who get shot in the United States are not gun wielders but unarmed victims. There's a reason why shooters typically target schools not police stations.

[SamInNebraska]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', ' ')Gun violence mostly affects people already prone to violence themselves.

[C8]

There was actually a study done which strongly suggests that the trigger pulls the person as much as the person pulls the trigger. Kids played a video game both with and w/o a real gun in their front view on the table. When the real gun was in their sight they committed many more violent acts. Just the sight of guns makes many nervous and tense and probably increases the odds they will be used by some.

Ask yourself this: if every driver went to work tomorrow with a loaded gun on the passenger seat- would you feel safer or not? If every kid went to school with a gun, would you feel they were safer or not?

pretty much a no brainer.

[vtsnowedin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '(')Yes Davep, the new guy tends to drift off topic, but in this case a discussion on gun violence would seem to be relevant. Anyway he is also wrong, so I feel compelled to respond.)

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newbie Wants Info', 'T')hat's why the vast majority of shooting victims are unarmed.

[dionisio]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newbie Wants Info', 'Y')ou're misreading statistics. All that says is that people are more likely to die by getting shot in the heart than stabbed in the heart. The vast majority of people who get shot in the United States are not gun wielders but unarmed victims. There's a reason why shooters typically target schools not police stations.

[John_A]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('C8', 'T')here was actually a study done which strongly suggests that the trigger pulls the person as much as the person pulls the trigger.