What Do Boys Do When They Find a Real Gun?

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8. It is reasonable to fear earthquakes in central Kansas?

Are tornados a serious threat in San Francisco?

Your mistake is in not realizing that almost all of the gun crimes are committed by people who are already criminals, not by legal gun owners. Yet it is the legal gun owners that you fear.

There are between 100 to 150 million gun owners in America. The exact number is not known, only estimates. 9,334 killed is less than one thousandth of one percent of gun owners. In other words, 99.999+% of gun owners were peaceful during that time. That is PROOF that almost all LEGAL gunowners are responsible. But you want to judge us all by the very few criminals who also have guns.

Would you judge all blacks by the few that are criminals? Do you judge all Muslims by the few that are terrorists? Of course you don't, yet you don't hesitate to judge all gun owners by the few bad ones.

The question of who will illegally use a gun to harm another person is one that has been well studied for over a century. The facts are well known by criminologists. Rarely does a criminals use a gun for their first offense. Usually there is a prior record leading up to that crime.

Rarely is deliberate murder a first offense. Usually the murderer has a history of violent crime.

It is NEVER that way in the movies, TV and murder mystery novels. In that type of fiction, which most people use as their information source, the murderer is always a first offender, and never a common street criminal. After all, what's the mystery if the murderer was a common thug?