[KriegHund]

This thread inspired me to post this fact i found out a few days ago
http://neardeathexperiments.com/smf/index.php?topic=37.0

28,000 people die every year from guns. (According to an anti-gun essay in the book Is Gun Ownership a Right? edited by Kelly Doyle)

There are roughly 70 million gun owners in the USA.

Divide the two and you get .0004% of gun owners have commited a crime with their guns. Assuming all gun crimes were committed with legal guns (which we know isnt truth) And thats not counting multiple murders with one gun.

Just a quick fact to remember ina debate or somesuch.

[pauli]

c in no way follows from a and b.

[Soybomb]

Don't forget to subtract suicide from the death by guns numbers. In 2000 there were supposedly 16,586 suicides by firearm in the US, leaving 10,801 homicides by firearm.

[dgrolem]

The gun deaths in the U.S. are somewhere around 20,000 per year. This includes three categories: homocides, suicides, and accidental discharges. The anti-gun lobby usually do the following arithmetic:

(All homocides + all suicides + exaggerated accidental discharges) = 35,000+

About 60% of homocides AND suicides are due to guns. Accidental discharges (80% long guns, 20% handguns) number less than 1,000 per year.

While 20,000 souls are indeed a tragic number, they need to deal with the facts and not inflate the numbers:cuss: