Which also don't take into consideration whether or not they are locked up and secured. Nor do those numbers take into consideration stability within individual families. There's a guy on YouTube who does DemolitionRanch. He owns more guns than his local sheriff's office, and yet he has an amazing family and perfect stability. I've had guns in my house since I was 21. I'm 33, and I'm still alive. I currently have 6.
Not every gun owner has their life threatened by a gun either, so what's your point? Check out this guy on YouTube through DemolitionRanch, then tell me he's more of a threat to himself or his family.
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My point is that a great predictor for whether or not you are a victim of gun violence is whether or not there is a gun in the house.
What is more likely: You use your gun against someone trying to kill you. Or Your gun gets used to blow your own brains out.
By that logic, then it's also a great predictor if I'm the dead victim of a violent criminal, rather than alive and safe. I know a guy, my buddy Ken, who's a doctor and at one time had about 70 guns. Nicest guy in the world. But apparently, according to 3R here, he's a dropped teacup away from going on a rampage. That I use my gun to protect myself. But that's speaking for MYSELF. Your supposed statistics do not take each individual gun owner's life into account. It's taken from crime statistics in the inner cities and anti-gun organizations who cherry pick government statistics to fill their agenda.
So is your opinion that a gun makes me more likely to kill myself. I have tons of electrical equipment in my apartment. But if I go to an office building in down town Portland, am I more likely to be electrocuted there than my apartment? There's a lot more electrical equipment in an office building than anywhere in my apartment complex.
