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Title: Guns can provide a false sense of security
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URL Source: http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion ... 912952464jul08,0,4372513.story
Published: Jul 9, 2009
Author: Newsweek
Post Date: 2009-07-09 07:03:50 by Disgusted
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Views: 133
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While it's not clear why gun sales are up this year on Long Island, speculation includes fear of a rise in crime fueled by the bad economy. But if people are buying guns to protect themselves in their homes, the track record on gun-related suicides and homicides should provide reason for pause. Guns can be useful for home defense. But a gun at home increases the risk of suicide two- to 10-fold, depending on a person's age, according to the New England Journal of Medicine. It also triples the risk of homicide in the home, most of the cases of which are legally unjustified, according to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. The upswing in gun sales was reported to Newsday by Long Island gun dealers and by police, who said applications for pistol permits in 2009 are on track to top last year's total by 50 percent. Analysts speculated that in addition to the fear of crime, the prospect of stricter gun laws, due to the election of President Barack Obama, also may be driving the increase. And police noted a rise in retirements among law enforcement officers who then seek pistol permits. Guns are used in more than half of all suicides - an average of 46 a day nationally in 2005. And ready availability is key, since suicide is often impulsive, a reaction to a stressful situation such as the breakup of a romance or loss of a job. Guns may make some people feel safer. But it's often a tragically false sense of security.
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#1. To: Disgusted (#0)
Pepper spray is much safer, especially when used against some drug addict and / or psychotic. /sarcasm But since the Brady Bunch said it, it must be true. .
Click for Privacy and Preparedness files
Well there you have it. All cops need to turn in their guns by the end of the workday. You don't need them.
"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that its people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms....The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson
Leftist pablum
Al "The Zionist Jew" Franken spouted this very same crap when he was on Bill Maher's television show several years ago. The audience showed their own ignorance by responding with thunderous applause.
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Owning and driving a car greatly increases your chance of being maimed or injured in a car accident. Frequently consuming chicken correlates closely to being the victim of choking on a chicken bone. Sliding out of a birth canal and being born leads to a 100% chance of death... Note also, observations posed such as the ones in the article are meaningless without touching upon the obvious counter events concurrent with owning a weapon. You most definitely have a far lesser chance of being successfully robbed, beaten, raped, home invaded, etc... owning one than without, probably in numbers that exceed the tragedies by orders of magnitude.
Bring on the Depression. Bring it the F*** ON! If digging ditches and eating beans for a few years is what it takes for me to see some worthless sacks of crap bankers and politicians living in sack cloth and being spat upon by my fellow Americans well... where's my shovel?!?!
Turtle pointed a pistol at six or seven thugs once and the attitude adjustment was amazing. All I saw were asses running away. Of course, it helped I told the big mouth, who had a pistol pointing at his face, that I was going to blow his f**king brains out. Zoom, they were gone.
Guns may make some people feel safer. But it's often a tragically false sense of security.
#2. To: Disgusted (#0)
Guns may make some people feel safer. But it's often a tragically false sense of security.
#3. To: Disgusted (#0)
Guns may make some people feel safer. But it's often a tragically false sense of security.
#4. To: Disgusted (#0)
Guns can be useful for home defense. But a gun at home increases the risk of suicide two- to 10-fold, depending on a person's age, according to the New England Journal of Medicine. It also triples the risk of homicide in the home, most of the cases of which are legally unjustified, according to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#5. To: Disgusted. shooters heree (#0)
...according to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
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#7. To: Disgusted (#0)
There's no place better thanTurtle Island.
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