The risk of having a gun in the home

[The Straight Story]

30. Hmmm. What percent of gun owners use guns in crimes?

You refer to people who value their rights and freedoms as nuts.

Are you an abortion nut? No restrictions on them at all? Are you a free speech nut?

And all your argument does is show that very few people use their guns in crimes, just like very few muslims do terrorist attacks - but hey, we have a grudge so let's play rw when it comes to things we don't like an label everyone not like us as nuts/humpers/etc.

Heck I might just buy a gun next year just to piss off some people - well, I would, but then that gun would magically possess me with it's metal demon power and turn me into a serial killer.

So I ask you for another fact - what percent of people who legally own guns used them in a crime ? There are roughly 50 million gun owners (give or take). There were 1,203,564 violent crimes in the US in 2011.

In 2010 there were 14,748 homicides in the US, 67% involved guns so about 9800 with guns.

50,000,000 gun owners. That is not including people who own them illegally (whom I suspect probably have more of bent towards using them in crimes).

We sell fear because we like to control things. Less than 1% of people with guns use them to harm others.

But we are a lazy people and don't want to address the root causes of crime (poverty, alcohol, drugs, etc) so we run to government and ask them to pass laws they won't have the money to enforce and that don't really do anything. So we can feel good.