The risk of having a gun in the home

[GreenStormCloud]

40. Easily dealt with.

Accidents.

The accident rate for guns has been steadily declining. 680 annually is a fairly small number for a country on 310 million. There are lots of other accident causes that are killing lots more folks than guns. For example, 33,041 in 2010 were killed by accidental poisoning.

Suicide
That is a risk that I choose to accept for myself. I don't need you as a nanny. If I decide to kill myself, then that is my choice.

Homicide
The homicide rate has been greatly decreased.

It is very rare for a normal person to commit murder as their first violent crime. And most murder victims are also involved in a criminal enterprise when they are murdered. Since criminals don't care much about laws, adding a layer of guns laws will do nothing about that. We need to legalize and reasonably regulate drugs, prostitution, gambling so that many criminals will become legitimate businesspersons and sue each other in court instead of kill each other.

Justified homicide

Anti-gun fanatics usually leave that category out. There are few hundred of those annually. Sometime we do use guns to defend ourselves from violent criminals.

Since Nov, 1998 there have been 169,203,375 NICS checks. That's about 170 million gun sales in the last 14 and 1/2 years. Yet gun violence is declining.