Anyone like to shoot?

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I genuinely believe that guns kill people. Just look at our poor inner city neighborhoods, for example. In addition, studies have shown that one is less safe by owning a gun.

However, sport shooting, where one does not take a gun home, should be legal.

The poor inner city neighborhoods aren't hellholes because guns exist they are hellholes because gang bangers use guns to kill each other over drug territory. In fact, gang violence accounts for nearly 50% of the violent crime stats in the U.S., according to a 2011 FBI UCR on violent crime. I have a safe full of guns...they have no effect on inner city neighborhoods.

Studies that show you are "less safe" by having a gun in your home, are often flawed and misrepresented to suit the ideology and end-goal of the group presenting the flawed study. Those studies don't take into account suicides, or protective firearm uses by residents.


Research by Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck, has shown that firearms are used for protection as many as 2.5 million times annually.

If you feel less safe with a firearm in your home by all means do not own one. But do not tell me I cannot keep and bear firearms in my own home because you do not trust your self with the responsibility.

The leading causes of death in the US are cancer and obesity related diseases. By your logic we should ban cigarettes, and unhealthy foods.

....gun related murder is extremely rare, accounting for about .005% of all deaths in the country last year. Even rarer are murders committed with so called “assault rifles,” which pans out to about .0002% of all murders in 2011. (Note: these numbers are based on mathematical analysis of FBI Uniform Crime statistics, and statistics from the U.S. Center for Disease Control.)

9 Leading Causes of Death in the United States - Mic