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But as we've seen, they're less likely to be robbed while they're home. Which is safer for all concerned. No, that's inaccurate. They actually make an effort to rob unoccupied homes. In the UK, where the populace has been denied the tools of self-defense, they don't bother to make the effort. Then how do arrests occur? And it should be they, and not their victims, who bear the physical burden of their crimes.

Hi Catholic Scientist Of course one of the reasons for this failure is the statistics used: Number of homicides is per 100?Number of gun owners not used (number of people with access to guns?)Number of guns (/100 people iirc) = 88.8 does not mean that 88.8% of the population own guns or have access to one (and would be comparable to those potentially involve in gun homicide).Say the average gun owner has 3 guns in the US, that makes the number of gun owners/100 to be something like 29.6%. Similar adjustments for all other countries would change all the data, and would be more indicative in whether or not there is a correlation.Enjoy.Edited by RAZD, : .Edited by RAZD, : ..

About 6 months after every school in the USA has armed guards at the gates and in the corridors, there will be a massacre on a school bus.The NRA's immediate response will be to demand armed guards riding shotgun on school buses.And so on.

Hi Tangle And when one of those armed guards goes on a rampage ...Enjoy

And when one of those armed guards shoots a child when he was reaching for a hidden banana....

... then it wouldn't matter if he used a gun or an axe.

... then we will know either the training or the psych eval were deficient.

... then we will know it was a god awful idea to begin with.

..ah, good. i thought for a minute you didn't have it quite sorted out. But obviously you do, children are safe again, phew.

Assault Weapons Sales Boom Fuels Gun Industry Profits, And Tragedy | HuffPost Latest News

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In February 2006, Smith & Wesson, the storied gunmaker founded in 1851, unveiled its first-ever semi-automatic assault-style rifle. The company dubbed it the M&P15, for "military and police," but the gun was very much aimed at the retail market.

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Consumer response was "overwhelming," Mike Golden, the former CEO, told investors in a conference call the following year. Sales of the M&P15 and other military-style weapons were playing a crucial role in pulling the company out of a deep sales slump, he said.

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The boom in assault weapons has more than offset dropping sales of traditional firearms caused by a declining national interest in hunting, said Rommel Dionisio, a securities analyst at Wedbush Morgan Securities who follows the gun industry.

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"That category of firearms has been a primary growth engine and profit driver for firearms companies for the last seven or eight years," Dionisio said.

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Yes it would. There is actually a reason why people buy guns rather than axes. Guns are more effective. Otherwise they could save a whole lot of money, and the National Ax Association would be bigger than the NRA. There'd be big savings for the Army, too.

Killings in self-defense happen overwhelmingly because one individual wants to defend himself against an assailant, and once that guy is dead, they're done self-defending. And whether a gun is around, or a knife or a necktie or a pair of bare hands, is really very immaterial to that.Remember, guns don't protect people, people protect people.

What did you have in mind when you wrote this? Were you think that state troopers or the FBI would be patrolling the schools? Because almost certainly, both the teacher and the policeman in the school are going to be employees of the same governmental unit.Neither would be run by the state. Perhaps you meant to say that the teachers were civilians? Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

Yep."Guns don't kill people - people kill people.But guns make it a whoooole lot easier."

"The overwhelming majority of gun related crimes are committed with guns that have been stolen, and traded for drugs.Those guns are passed from criminal to criminal, sold and resold, and may very well be used in hundreds of crimes before they are recovered from someone accused of a crime."What Percentage Of Crimes Committed With Illegal And Legal Guns - Gun LawsWe do have a handle on the source of guns recovered from persons arrested and accused of a crime. Of guns recovered from persons arrested and charged with a crime:84 percent of those guns were stolen in a burglary; including 4 percent stolen from a relative or a friend.