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Gun or No Gun. Personal Choice Or Slave To Statistics?

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iossarian5/30/2013 12:18:28 pm PDT

re: #2 Political Atheist

The bulk of gun deaths are gang and armed robbery, not two ordinary gun owners out to walk the family dog. Perhaps the bulk of the attention should shift accordingly

Do you have a statistic for that?

My claim is that the vast majority of homicides* are committed by people who could legally own a gun if they wanted to at that point. I.e., they are law abiding and responsible gun owners up until the point that they use the gun to kill someone. Do you have a source to show that this is not the case?

* Note I am already sparing you the fact that the majority of gun deaths are suicides, a problem which probably needs to be addressed separately.