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To: epicure who wrote (107750)	4/5/2009 8:46:07 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (1) of 540978

Shooting is obviously more detached than say a knife - the close distance puts you at risk yourself. That said - you'd be surprised how hard it is to hit a moving target, a knife up close won't miss, but may not hit anything vital first attempt. As for aesthetics - there's gonna be a mess on the carpet and the police will have questions. The problem I have with your line of thinking is that I hear you saying people are somehow motivated to kill when the weapon keeps them safe during the murder. A person so enraged or intent upon murder will use the first tool available and limiting firearm access will not take away the source of the rage. You're simply saying that perhaps they'd murder the person in a more grizzly way or that at some point in the fight it gets too ugly for them or the victim fights back enough to stop the murder. The report I posted from Oxford Journal and highlighted said the rates of murder were only fractionally higher when firearms are present in the home. It also made the point that millions of defensive uses of firearms have been documented and those "good uses" far outweigh this limited fractional decrease in murders possible by removing all firearms from homes.

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