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In reply to the discussion: Racism and gun culture [View all]Jenoch
(7,720 posts)as you think you do. For instance, most of the CCW holders rarely or never actually carry a concealed gun in public. They are not prepared to take a life. You think anybody with a gun is a bloodthirsty, drooling, idiot who cannot wait to shoot and kill someone with their gun. That just is not the case.
I have seen the motherjones link before, you seem to drag that out on a majority of your posts about guns.
The problem with the stats about the likelyhood of a gun in the home being X times greater chance of.....
Those stats include situations where a criminal is shot by his fellow club member or the member of another club and he has a gun in his home, even though he was not shot at home, that statistic does not take that into account. It also does not take into account whether or not the owner of the gun possessed it legally or not.