Are we doing ourselves any favors repeating this 90% number?

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84. I don't mind answering.

Yes it would be safer to sleep indoors than buying a gun because only an idiot would sleep outdoors when there are robbers, rapists, and murderers about. So what are people supposed to do when they leave their homes? Would you prefer to avoid discussion of concealed carry rather than background check legislation?

A Google search for "home invasion" gets About 262,000,000 results. And this is from the ever popular gungeon just today...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1172121401
EVANSVILLE, IN (WFIE) - An Evansville man who held two home invasion suspects at gunpoint until police arrived shared his story with 14 News.
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Matt was behind his bedroom door when out of nowhere, he says two men kicked in the front door of his Idlewild Drive home.

"I raced for the gun vault and had my gun in my hand in 5-seconds and then answered the door," says Matt.
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Matt says the suspects were surprised and with no other options didn't move until police arrived. For two-long-minutes, Matt's pistol stayed locked on his targets loaded and at the ready.
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Both suspects remain in the Vanderburgh County Jail charged with armed burglary and robbery with a firearm.

Watch the video at the link. That's not an upscale neighborhood. I wonder how close that guy is to qualifying as "working poor"? Do you thing he can keep up his mortgage payments? Do you think he's behind on his rent? Do you think he has friends staying with him so they won't be on the street? I guess if he hadn't been home they would have been fucked since it would have been illegal to transfer a firearm to them without the proper paperwork.

You don't see them yet. The people who have to pool their resources just to survive. The people who have relationships that are not in the mainstream. The people who have to face high crime areas and slow police response time. All you see are "gun nuts", "gun worshipers", "robbers", and various undesirables who become so in your eyes because of what they own.

This is very telling:
No I do not give a shit about people who want loopholes in the law.

A fine bit of authoritarian thinking there. You support the law whether it will work or not. Hell you won't even discuss it. The law you want is the answer and everybody else has to just deal with it. Are you sure you're on the right website?

Edit to add:

Has it not occured to you that a measure of the support from Republicans for background checks was because it would deny same sex couples the ability to transfer a firearm without a background check because they can't get married? Just another slap in the face for supporters of GLBT rights. Bravo.