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CO: Guns bring greater risk than protection
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A national survey of gun ownership in 2015 (https://www.thetrace.org/2016/09/good-guy-handgun-ownership-harvard-survey) revealed that 22 percent of Americans own guns. And the number of families with handguns is growing more rapidly than families with long guns. Handguns now account for 60 percent of the guns owned compared to 26 percent in 1994. This large increase in handgun ownership is reportedly driven by fear. Two-thirds of owners surveyed report having a handgun for self-protection. |
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MarkHamTownsend
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Another lying stat.
If owning guns were so dangerous, seeing as there are 250++ million guns around, we ought to be seeing bullets flying everywhere, richochetting off of concrete walls, smashing into trees, zipping through automobile bodies, as we walk and drive around or walk, conducting our daily business.
I have spent a lot of time around town this week .... no bullets zipped by me. My glorious hide remains unscathed by bullets, as does the sheet metal of my car....no broken windows.... nothing...
>I feel soooooooooooo deprived ......
The antigunners are on the warpath again...........
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