The risk of having a gun in the home [View all]

[Uzair]

Facts are horrible things if you're a gun nut.

http://www.minnpost.com/second-opinion/2012/12/health-risk-having-gun-home

Read it all. Here's some quotes.

Accidental deaths

To begin with, having a gun in the home is a risk factor for serious accidental injury and death. As Hemenway points out, death certificate data indicate that 680 Americans were killed accidentally with guns each year between 2003 and 2007. Half those victims were under the age of 25.

Suicides

An average of 46 Americans committed suicide with guns each day between 2003 and 2007. In fact, more Americans killed themselves with guns during those years than with all other methods combined.

Homicides

Two-thirds of all murders between 2003 and 2007 involved guns. The average number of Americans shot and killed daily during those years was 33. Of those, one was a child (0 to 14 years), five were teenagers (15 to 19 years) and seven were young adults (20 to 24 years), on average.

Go ahead, DU gun nuts. Talk about everything else except the guns in order to explain these facts away. Just know that you can't win this "debate". There is no debate. Facts are facts. You've already lost. So either join the rest of us who live in a reality based world or go home.