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Date:      Sun, 26 Mar 2000 14:32:35 -0500
From:      "Christopher S. Weimann" <cweimann@wallnet.com>
To:        "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Guns and freedom [Was: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD"]
Message-ID:  <20000326143235.D29554@wallnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000326120230.00a6dd90@mail85.pair.com>; from G. Adam Stanislav on Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 12:02:30PM -0600
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On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 12:02:30PM -0600, G. Adam Stanislav wrote:
> At 13:16 26-03-2000 +0100, Mark Ovens wrote:
> >> No. I don't. No. But the last one is a good point. If you own a gun,
> >> you are more likely to be killed by it than any other.
> >
> >Can you elaborate? Is this due to accidently shooting yourself or
> >being shot by someone else using your gun?
> 
> I believe he was referring to the occurence of people being killed by their
> own gun when an attacker takes the gun away from them, and then shoots them.
> 

The famous statistic that shows that you are more likely to be killed by 
your own gun only shows that if you include suicides.

http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcdgaga.html 
http://www.i2i.org/SuptDocs/Crime/43_to_1_fallacy.htm

Both have an explanation of the nonsense math involved in coming to 
the conclusion that your own gun is 43 times more likley to kill you.

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