aquascoot wrote on Apr 16^th, 2023 at 6:17am:


Quote:

Apparently you favour not supporting Ukraine against the brutal
Russian invasion of the country?    What sort of prick are you?

aquascoot wrote on Apr 16^th, 2023 at 6:17am:


The Left aren't the people "loving" guns.  That's the Republicans:

9% of Democratic and 39% of Republican respondents said they believe the right to own guns is more important,

28% of Democratic and 48% of Republican respondents said they have a gun in their house,

34% of Republican and 87% of Democratic respondents said they were “very” or “somewhat” confident that stricter gun laws would reduce mass shootings,

24% of Democratic and 66% of Republican respondents said they “strongly” or “somewhat” favor arming K-12 teachers,

37% of Republican and 83% of Democratic respondents said they “strongly” or “somewhat” favor banning assault weapons,

70% of Republican and 85% of Democratic respondents said they “strongly” or “somewhat” support red-flag laws.

—Morning Consult and Politico—FiveThirtyEight, 7 June 2022.

Your usual and frequent deliberate misquoting of statistics comes as no
surprise to me Aquascoot.  You've made that particular habit more than
obvious on every COVID thread on this site.

This report includes a 9 min 10 sec video.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/15/police-shooting-wrong-house-vid...

Longest I could find.

greggerypeccary wrote on Apr 17^th, 2023 at 7:57am:


In particular, the researchers found, people who lived with handgun owners had a much higher rate of being fatally shot by a spouse or intimate partner. The vast majority of such victims, 84%, were women, they said.

Living with a handgun owner particularly increased the risk of being shot to death in a domestic violence incident, and it did not provide any protection against being killed at home by a stranger, the researchers found.

UnSubRocky wrote on Apr 17^th, 2023 at 11:16pm:


Yes.  If I were confronted by a householder aiming a handgun
at me, I'd only think one thought... he's gonna pull the trigger.

I agree the cops were right to act as they did in this scenario.

If this bloke had not had a firearm in the house, then he'd still
be alive today.   This confirms the fact that you're more likely
to be killed by a gun if you have one in your house.

[Stanford Medicine, 4 April 2022]

Frank wrote on Apr 18^th, 2023 at 9:32am:


Jesus, some people are thick.

If he didn't have a gun in his house he couldn't point it at a cop.

Having a gun in the home doesn't offer the occupants any security - it actually makes the house a much more dangerous place to be.

"Living with a handgun owner particularly increased the risk of being shot to death in a domestic violence incident, and it did not provide any protection against being killed at home by a stranger, the researchers found."

greggerypeccary wrote on Apr 18^th, 2023 at 10:31am:


Yeah, and research shows that people who have cars are more likely get speeding and parking fines than people who don't drive. Another research has conclusively shown that people playing with fire are more likely to get burnt than people who don't. Another research has finally ended the debate whether people working on ladders are more likely to fall off than those who don't climb ladders. Science is amazing. Get this: people who grope around in the dark are more likely to stub their toes on something than those who turn on the lights. They are so clever, those researchers.

I get confused the second amendment says that you can have a gun in your own home ?

the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed except when the police want to shoot you. OH I see now.