On Mon, 24 May 2010 10:47:12 -0600, Canuck57
wrote:



The stats are meaningless by themselves.

More people die from autos, so lets ban them too. That is the mentality
of this.

cars have a use. guns do not.


For guns, one also has to examine, like autos, the need. How many times
was a gun used properly to avoid problems?

something like 300 people used guns legitimately to defend themselves
last year.

11,000 people were murdered by guns last year. so about 97 murder
victims to every legit use of self defense