2aguy
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I'm glad you are very safe and hope you continue to be. But that doesn't mean that having guns around makes you safer. That is a false claim statistically. The most likely person by far to be shot by your gun is yourself. That does not make you safer.
Only if the owner makes a decision that they want to end their own life, in which case, gun ownership is moot.
When 6,500+ Americans accidentally die of suffocation and only 505 accidentally die from firearms, firearm owners are doing a pretty damn good job.
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http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr64/nvsr64_02.pdf
I didn't say it makes you that much more unsafe. But claiming it makes you safer is clearly false.
If you use a gun to stop or prevent a violent criminal attack or save a life you are safer...and that happens more than guns are used to murder people......