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To: Skipper who wrote (21968)	5/24/1998 11:25:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Everyone has the right to defend themselves, of course, Skipper. However, if there weren't two hundred million guns in this culture, far fewer criminals would be armed with them, and so self defense might have a greater chance of success. Not only are your chances of your own gun being used against greater than that of your successfully defending yourself, but most guns used in crimes are stolen in residential burglaries. Here is a statement from the Missouri Capitol Police: <<Statistics show, however, that a firearm is not necessarily an effective weapon. Keeping a gun at home was found to make the owner three more times likely to die violently by gunshot wounds, than the average person through accident, domestic violence or an assailant using the gun against the owner.>> dps.state.mo.us