re: #52 Political Atheist

No, I’m talking about relative risk. It’s obvious that owning a gun is dangerous. In rare cases, the danger of being attacked is so high that owning a gun makes you safer. Those cases are rare.

The specific number doesn’t really matter in terms of personal choice, which is what I’m talking about. It’s kind of like owning a hotplate, except a hotplate has actual utility, but still, there are a ton of tiny little apartments carved out of spaces in New York where there shouldn’t be, and people do their cooking on little hotplates. Problem is that a hotplate is so freaking easy to start a fire with its ridiculous. It’s almost never worth it to own a hotplate, even if you’re a very careful hotplate user.