2008 Woodie Awards
Guns do not save or secure lives
Darren Seiber
Issue date: 3/26/07 Section: ViewPoint
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However, the truth of the matter is, that Texas gun laws are no less lax than that of other states. It seems to be a love, hunger, thirst and desire for guns that has swept throughout the entire country - and with fatal results.
An epidemic of intended crime prevention has proven to host a whole new genre of crime; one that's faster, easier and comes with a load of alibis. Now, now, a good American can never pass up a bargain.
Maybe that explains why 1,000 people die every day due to guns. Anti-gun control supporters will immediately attack that statement to say, and I only quote the ignorant, to not believe it, "Guns don't kill people. People kill people!" My, with such a mind set, every gun supporter should have a degree in philosophy. Maybe then they could articulate in such a way that the blame game just might work.
Sure, we can continue to blame guns for homicides, suicides, war deaths and freak accidents for as long as we like. But when other nations, such as Canada, reform gun laws only to see a 46 percent decrease in gun-related deaths, America might want to check its facts again. Not that our ego would ever allow any real admittance of having been in the wrong.
We are wrong because guns are wrong. They are deadly, unethical creations that do not save or secure any number of lives that could build a reliable statistic. Instead, there are mountains of statistics telling us otherwise.
Take, for instance, this statistic: for women, having a gun in the house increases the chances of being murdered by 172 percent. If that's not good enough, chew on this for a while: one study showed that people who attempt to use a gun in self-defense are four times as likely to die. Having a gun in the home does not make you safer. It is not an imaginary insurance policy.
I'm not sure any statistic could change the mind of someone set on owning a gun. No matter what is said in favor of gun control, it would seem that the Second Amendment has blinded us for too long. I suppose that 300 years ago, on the frontier, out in the West, and in the Appalachian Mountains, guns were necessary.
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GunShowOnTheNet
posted 3/26/07 @ 3:00 AM CST
To put it quite frankly Darren. You have no idea of what you are writing about. You are arguing from baseless emotion, rather than actual fact. The FBI statistics even disagree with you. (Continued…)
Ray
posted 3/26/07 @ 5:32 AM CST
1,000 people die every day due to guns? You got any references for that? Like maybe the FBI, who keeps track of those things? Or did you just make it up?
Richard
posted 3/26/07 @ 7:19 AM CST
Nice of you to make up numbers as you go along. At 1,000 people a day, that would be 365,000 a year. The ONLY way you can get THAT number is to include the WHOLE WORLD in your numbers and that includes all the little wars going on right now. (Continued…)
Joe
posted 3/26/07 @ 7:42 AM CST
I can give personal testimony that guns do save lives... like the time I awoke to find a 250-pound knife wielding maniac in my bedroom. The fact that I am alive to write this and the fact that he is in prison is enough to show your premise is false. (Continued…)
Harold
posted 3/26/07 @ 8:22 AM CST
You must feel a lot better now that you have removed those uncomfortably large lies from you rectum. Because that is where you pulled those numbers from. (Continued…)
Jep Poole
posted 3/26/07 @ 8:31 AM CST
Darren,
You admit to drawing your statistics from IANSANA (http://www.iansana.org), which is a United Nations venture that seeks to eliminate all but official state sponsored entities from having access to arms (worldwide). (Continued…)
Joseph P. Martino
posted 3/26/07 @ 8:53 AM CST
You picked the wrong guy to try to sell this garbage to. I'm alive today because I had a gun at my bedside the night I awoke to find an intruder in my bedroom. (Continued…)
Carl Hickman
posted 3/26/07 @ 9:00 AM CST
If guns are so evil, why do we allow our law enforcement officers and members of the military to use them? A gun is no more and no less than a tool. The good or evil of a tool depends on the hand holding it. (Continued…)
James Daniel Ross
posted 3/26/07 @ 9:01 AM CST
A pitiful and sophomoric rant, unworthy of print or ink except as an indictment of the failures of higher learning. How can a student in this day and age, not to mention his editor, not only fail basic English but critical thinking? Darren Seiber has a picture plastered with 'Don't Panic'. (Continued…)
haris pilton
posted 3/26/07 @ 9:02 AM CST
Where are you getting that number? It certainly isn't from the FBI Uniform Crime Report. 1,000 gunfire homicides a day equals 365,000 a year.
The FBI UCR states that there were only ~40,000 homicides in the US (justifiable and non-justifiable by ALL TYPES OF WEAPONS). (Continued…)
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