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In reply to the discussion: Who kills women with guns? [View all]Threedifferentones
(1,070 posts)Just a couple posts up you say "ANYONE with a gun in the home is 7x more likely to..." That means that any given gun owner falls in line with your claims, right? If that's not what you meant, it is still a reasonable interpretation.
So, after you claim that literally every gun owner is likely to misuse their gun, you are then surprised when some people respond saying "well that's not true for me."
Your stats are compelling, but you seem to believe they prove that a gun makes every woman's situation worse. They do not, they just prove that a woman whose man has a gun is much more likely to be shot than a woman whose man does not. Wow, shocking.
Reasonable people don't need stats to see that if a smaller person is going to stand up to a violent, bigger person, the smaller person needs help. And if there are no other people around, then a gun is about the only thing that can help a smaller person.
It's pretty clear from your prolific responses that you are also taking this thread personally, however much you try and hide behind numbers.
Why is that? You've been a victim? Me too. That's why I own guns.