What Do Boys Do When They Find a Real Gun?

[gejohnston]

16. If you have no criminal record

and you don't hang out with people who do, your chance of being a murder victim is about the same as being a lottery winner.

Keep on minimizing our gun problem - typical responsible gun owner jargon.

not a gun problem. BTW, Somalia has 9 privately owned guns per 100 people. Canada and Iceland has over 30 and Finland has 45.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country

Hopeless garbage from a group who doesn't care how many are killed by guns. People die, who cares how they die?

If you stay out of the triangle of stupid, your chances of being murdered are close to zero. Most murders are criminals with long criminal records. So are most of their victims. That has been known in criminologist circles for centuries. It isn't hopeless garbage, it is reality. TV is not reality, nor is the crap the vast wasteland tries to sell.

I met a teaparty type person a couple weeks ago. She had pictures of her family with the weapons on her phone. She also had a double mastectomy because she had the gene - and doesn't want to die.

And?

I don't want to die from a gun and I especially don't want my kid to die from a gun. I'm doing what I can to prevent that from ever happening just like the lady with the simple Glock and new fake breasts.

I don't worry about man bites dog anymore than I worry about finding myself in a black swan event. Equating a target shooter, Olympic material or not, or hunter with drug dealers and gangsters, doesn't strike me as rational.