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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Kevin Rose who wrote (238737)3/17/2002 11:54:15 AM
From: Gordon A. Langston  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
Drowning is #3 for accidental deaths amongst the young. Why no outcry against pools? Well, we mitigate and say they serve the health and recreation needs of these same kids and others. Then we try and make them safer.

Firearms are further down the list. Is there any mitigating service they provide or is it "just good for killing"? And why not train children in gun safety just as we would with pools, autos, and dangerous machinery. The forbidden is mighty attractive.

"In a 1981 survey by pollster Peter A. Hart for the National Alliance Against Violence, 4 percent of the households polled
reported at least one use of a handgun against a person in the previous five years. Even if we assume only one incident
per reporting household, that's 645,000 defensive uses of handguns per year. Based on these figures, about 18 percent
of people who owned handguns for protection actually used them for protection."

Kopel cites a more in-depth survey conducted by Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck, in which detailed
questioning weeded out respondents who confused merely owning a gun for protection with actually using it. The
questions also accounted for persons who had used a gun defensively more than once.

"The new data showed that guns are used defensively between 850,000 and 2.5 million times a year in the United
States. Most of the defensive uses involved handguns, and the vast majority of such uses do not involve firing the
weapon, but merely brandishing it to scare away an attacker.

That "special deadly ammo" you speak of is actually safer. It is used by the police. It doesn't penetrate and cause collateral damage.
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