Put this gun on your keychain and you are likely to shoot yourself in the balls getting it out of your pocket.

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Quote Originally Posted by Rusty Trichome
2nd Ammendment gurantees us the right to keep and bear firearms, and there is no evidence that restricting guns will lower the crime rate. A thief or murderer will still rob and kill, just by using other means.
Should we ban cars, because morons maim and kill while driving drunk? ...while evading police? ...while putting on make-up, or eating, or on the cell phone?
As with guns, it's not the car that kills folks, it's the irresponsible driver. And there's not even a Z28 Ammendment. (the right to keep and drive two-ton weapons)
...cars are a good analogy, I think. We don't take away the driving privilege without cause, and I don't think we should ban guns either. But we do register cars so that owners can be held accountable, and we require licenses so that drivers are known to understand the laws and safety rules before they can legally operate a vehicle. Cars can be dangerous if they are operated unsafely, so it makes sense to know a person knows how to drive before you let them out on the road. And if a car is involved in an accident or a crime, it's important to be able to check the registration and know who it belongs to. I don't see anything wrong with doing the same for guns, but you get gun rights folks in an uproar even suggesting it. They always think it's the first step toward taking away their constitutional rights. Wrong. It's about responsibility and accountablility.

I don't advocate banning guns at all. But anyone who thinks they are making themselves safer by bringing a gun into their homes may be mistaken. 30,000 people are shot dead each year in the US and 65,000 are injured by a gun. About 17,000 of those killed are suicides. About 12,000 are murders, many of which are famly members or friends killing eachother during an argument with a gun that's in the house. There are about 700 accidental deaths and about 300 shot by police. I couldn't find statistics for the number of crimes that are foiled by using a gun to defend yourself. Does anyone know? I doubt that as many crimes are stopped as there are people killed --- let me know if you find differently. But it seems like if you have a gun in your house, if anyone is killed, the person most likely to be killed is not an intruder --- it's you or someone else shooting themselves, followed by a family member or friend murdering another family member or friend.