Omelet wrote:
> In article >,
> "gloria.p" > wrote:
>
>> argus tuft wrote:
>>> * 10,177 guns were used in murders in the U.S. in 2006 while in the same
>>> year, Canada reported 190. That's over 5 times a higher rate in the US.
>>>
>>> * Around 32,000 people have been shot in America so far this year.
>>>
>>> * 300 Americans are shot, on average, every day.
>>>
>>> * For adults, keeping a gun in the home quadruples the risk of dying of an
>>> accidental gunshot wound.
>>>
>>> * In 2008, 17,215 people in the U.S. were wounded in unintentional
>>> shootings
>>> but survived.
>>>
>>> * For kids ages up to four years old, the mortality rate is 17 times higher
>>> in states with high number of guns, versus states with a low number of
>>> firearms.
>>>
>>> * 33% of U.S. households contain a gun, and half reportedly don't lock up
>>> their weapons.
>>>
>>> * A gun in the home is four times more likely to be used in an
>>> unintentional
>>> shooting than to be used to injure or kill in self-defense.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> For some of us, you're preaching tot he choir. For others, those are
>> fighting words.
>>
>> gloria p
>
> <lol> Too true!
>
> According to statistics, guns save 20 times as many lives as they take:


That takes a huge leap in logic. Given that the US has five times the
per capita rate of firearms homicides, you have to ask how they could
have saved 20 times as many lives. Gun use (against humans is not as
prevalent here as in the US. By your logic, we should have had a lot
more people murdered.