Just a thought...can you imagine how many people

[Raven]

would have been shot in the last 12 hours if the NRA had it's way and everybody in those Watertown neighborhoods had guns?

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Spot on. nt

[Raven]

2. Manny, you would know those neighborhoods...very

tight, close together houses...easy to overreact if someone is in your backyard.

[MannyGoldstein]

4. It would turn into deadly free-for all in seconds

When I first woke up and heard what's going on *I* wanted a gun. Which would not have been a good idea.

Instincts are powerful!

[Recursion]

3. Watertown is one of the most heavily-armed cities in the region

http://watertown.patch.com/articles/large-capacity-gun-permits-soar-in-watertown

So where are all the deaths by crossfire?

[Raven]

5. I am sorry but you are the rear of a donkey. n/t

[Recursion]

6. I *showed you the permit numbers*

Watertown has more lenient gun laws than Newton, Cambridge, Somerville, or Boston. It has a relatively high number of people who own guns. I just showed you that.

Where were these deaths by crossfire you're talking about? I didn't hear about them.

However, I'll take your insult as a concession.

[Raven]

9. It wasn't an insult, it was a fact.

[Recursion]

10. No, I am clearly not in fact the rear end of a donkey. They can't type.

I realize it's painful to have naive views on things punctured, but your premise is kind of dumb. People owning guns does not make them shoot randomly into the streets whenever something happens.

[MannyGoldstein]

7. In a town of 30,000 people?

It's not exactly the Wild West, given those stats.

[Recursion]

8. Compared to Boston or Brookline? (To say nothing of Cambridge)

There are *hundreds* of gun owners in Watertown.

Where were all the deaths from crossfire? They had to have happened, right? Because owning guns apparently makes people stupid?

[MannyGoldstein]

12. Thousands in Newton

http://newton.patch.com/articles/large-capacity-gun-permits-in-newton-on-the-rise-since-2008. Seems like a similar ratio (90k people in Newton).

At least two gun stores within a few miles.

[cali]

11. There may well be those with guns in those neighborhoods. Probably there are.

Owning a gun doesn't automatically denote stupid and trigger happy.