Reply #32: So what?

[Euromutt]

How does that alter the fact that, statistically, the single most likely cause of death for a resident of the United States under 18 is as the occupant of a motor vehicle that is involved in a collision.
Statistically, a resident of the United States aged 1-15 is almost six times as likely to die as a result of a motor vehicle collision than of a gunshot wound. According to the CDC's WISQARS http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/index.html in the period 1999-2006, in the age group 0-15, there were 3,309 deaths from GSWs, against 19,172 deaths from MV collisions. Note that that's before the kids can drive themselves: they all died with someone else driving.

You can't invoke statistics when it's convenient, and then discard them when it becomes inconvenient; that's just trying to have it both ways. You also need to look up what a straw man actually is. This is a good link: http://www.fallacyfiles.org/strawman.html

Anyway, what's wrong with the idea that the risk of firearms in the candidate household should be assessed on a case-by-case basis, and that if the firearms are securely stored and the prospective parents demonstrate a good understanding of firearms safety, the presence of firearms should in and of itself not form an impediment?