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In reply to the discussion: I SWEAR this is not a 'flamebait' post, it is a serious question... [View all]Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)14. MY guns will kill precisely zero preschoolers next year or any other year.
Tens of millions of gun owners can say the same thing, confident that the chance of needing their guns for defense might be remote, but it's astronomically more likely than their guns harming a preschooler. You make a good argument for proper gun security, though...
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Ferretherder
Dec 2012
OP
We also live in the country and use our guns for when there is a need to protect our animals
peacebird
Dec 2012
#3
MY guns will kill precisely zero preschoolers next year or any other year.
Lizzie Poppet
Dec 2012
#14
Would you prefer "astronomically low but marginally greater than zero probability?"
Lizzie Poppet
Dec 2012
#29
1. Guns are fun to fire. 2. Foreign invasion? 3. Then, your "IF" is ridiculous and after 1 and 2.
Festivito
Dec 2012
#8
No, because the "argument" is "Keep guns away from the bad guys." And they would be identified HOW??
WinkyDink
Dec 2012
#23
I have owned in the past too, not the antique guns you owned, but I knew people who did
Cleita
Dec 2012
#20
And private gun ownership did what, in those instances (unless you aren't speaking of the U.S.)?
WinkyDink
Dec 2012
#24
Yes, this was an extreme outlier, that is true. He was a dedicated plotter who went to
CTyankee
Dec 2012
#40