BINGO! When antis say that they used a gun and therefore guns should be banned, I counter with the FACT that there are MILLIONS of firearms in private hands and only a very small percentage of those firearms are ever used in any sort of a crime, of which murder is but one crime. That usually shuts them up, or they get snippy because they know they are wrong, but want to argue for the sake of it, or for political reasons.stroo wrote:People often point to mental illness, violent video game play and ownership - legally or otherwise - of firearms. The problem with using any of these as a marker is that millions of people have or do each while a minisculely small percentage actually become mass murderers or even violent.
So while one or all of these markers are almost always present in mass murderer, they really are not predictive of who will become one.
So it seems to me the only real solution is to allow/encourage people to defend themselves again.
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- Wed Sep 18, 2013 7:09 pm
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