Hillary advocating suing gun manufacturers for shootings is ridiculous. If a person buys a gun

[Lizzie Poppet]

95. Gee, nice refutation of my several points. /smh

Okay, I'll just drop the practice killing stuff, since you apparently don't want to actually defend your claim...no worries. It's not like either of us is likely to relent...this is the internet, after all. So let's address that last point:

Yet you could... much more easily than me kill a person unlawfully on purpose or by accident. Your guns make the world less safe for me. So why should I risk hurt because of you?

You sure about that? My competition rifles come out of the (very good) gun safe when I'm headed out to practice or to a match. The chances of them ever posing a threat to any living thing are so remote that I have no problem whatsoever dismissing them. I don't worry about being hit by a meteor, either. The handguns are also never out of the safe unless they are on my person, or at least (in the house) within my reach, at night...I probably don't need a "home defense" pistol at all where I live now (not ground floor, locked, secure building in downtown Portland), but I already owned it, and it was a gift. It's no threat to anyone outside my house or possibly at the range if I commit some catastrophic gun safety error (damned unlikely, let me assure you).

Really the only firearm of mine an innocent person has even a minutely probable chance of being harmed by is my carry pistol....because it's actually regularly outside the gun safe, loaded, and on my person. But how high is that probability, really? While I suppose there's a chance I might shoot someone illegally, given that the worst thing on my record is a traffic citation, I passed a background check for my permit, and am a member of a group (CCW holders) with a lower rate of violent crime than average argues strongly against that. I've never had a negligent discharge (I hate the term "accidental discharge" - there's no such thing...it's negligence). So again, possible, but highly unlikely, particularly as I'm not a "gun flasher" who takes their weapon out in public unless I need to use it. And I think open carry is for idiots...

Okay, that still leaves me at a higher chance of killing a person, illegally or accidentally, since you have no guns...but let's look into other comparisons between us on that matter. How big and strong are you? I'm a 5'3", 112lb female. About the only people I'd be capable of illegally killing with my bare hands are children. And while it's occasionally tempting, I can't see that happening. What I'm not physically capable of is beating most any adult to death in a fight. How about you?

Do you drive a lot? I don't drive much at all (not a car commuter). Mostly just trips out of the city. If you drive more than I do, you have a greater chance of killing someone accidentally in that manner than I do, assuming similar driving skills (one accident in my life, other driver's fault...but I'm not any Lewis Hamilton).

Etc., if you see the point I'm trying to make. Neither of us is probably a significant threat to innocent life...certainly not to the point of worrying about it. That's true of an absolutely overwhelming majority of the 80-90 million gun owners in the US. If the overall statistical probability of harm from gun owners were anything other than very, very small, we really would have the "blood in the streets" scenario some of the more...strident...gun control advocates continually predict. If my guns - or those of those of all but a tiny fraction of one percent of all US gun owners - make the world less safe for you, it is by such an infinitesimally small amount that you'll have to excuse me if I dismiss anything more than a passing thought about it as silly.

It's that tiny fraction you (and I) have to worry about...and keeping those folk from owning guns is why I actually support a good bit of additional gun regulation.