Actually, it might be more informative to compare the numbers of children (REAL children, not 19 year old druggies!) injured by guns to the number of children injured by medical mistakes on the part of health care providers . . . IIRC, a study by Harvard indicated about 90,000 people a year in the USA die from medical blunders.seamusTX wrote:About the best you can do to counter that is to find the numbers of children injured by firearms versus cars, swimming pools, etc.
This reminds me of a pro/con debate I saw on TV some years back . . . the host asked a pro-gunner, in reference to the retroactive gun ban for "domestic violence" records, "Do YOU think a wife beater should have a gun?"Venus Pax wrote:They often give women questionnaires to see if they are being battered, and the "Does you home have a handgun?"
The pro-gunner said "A wife beater shouldn't have a wife, but if he IS married, then SHE ought to have a gun!!"
The host didn't like that answer at all . . . most likely, because he had no witty retort.