re: #53 Obdicut

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.

Looking at this differently I guess, because in either instance I’d like to see the number of fires and the rate of hot plate use to see how often there is a problem. One in a million? One in 100,000? One fire for every ten hotplates?!
Perspective.