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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] [QUOTE] C'mon, how many people would rob a bank with a knife? Give a person a gun ... you've got a different story. [/QUOTE] How many people would hijack a plane with a knife? Oh, wait, we already know the answer to that... In any case, your statistics fail to take many other factors into account. One of the more obvious is that murders are not evenly distributed throughout the population. Another is that it also does not take into account bad-guy-on-bad-guy murders, and lumps them in with innocent people. It counts if one drug dealer shoots a rival drug dealer he knows in his house. Both may be gun owners, but that is irrelevant. If your writers were actually using valid means of determining their statistics, they would find that the murder rate among otherwise law-abiding gun owners is very close to that among non-gun owners, perhaps lower in some areas. In fact, it is not extraordinary for these 'statisticians' to 'reclassify non homicides, such as accidents and suicides, as homicides to fit their statistical models. I read an expose a few years ago that showed a certain 'researcher' from a college had done that. The "Impulse Murder" is a myth. People who kill in rages generally will use whatever is at hand... and that's not usually a gun. Blunt instruments come to mind. Many more children under 10 die at the bare hands of their parents each year than are killed by guns. (Actually, the leading cause of death for children under that age is mother's live-in boyfriend.) [QUOTE]The only alternative is that a family member or intimate acquaintance brought a second gun into the house on the day of the murder (any longer-term storage would have classified it as a "gun in the house"). [/QUOTE] "ONLY alternative?" Omega on Evolution? [QUOTE]That all murderers using handguns would do this seems highly implausible. [/QUOTE] When you say it like that, yes. "ALL" is implausible. However, "Some," "Many," or "Enough to change the statistical outcome" are NOT implausible at all. Skewed wording. [QUOTE]It is also unlikely that these live-in murderers would restrict themselves to guns; we should expect to see other murder methods employed as well. [/QUOTE] No doubt we do.. however, since those were not relevant to the "study," they were no doubt left uncounted. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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