Well, then I think it is safe to say Teddy Steals is not going to be receiving a firearm anytime soon 🙂

Making derogatory comments amounts to little more than a selfie on social media: we all ignore the seriousness of your comments as you wax eloquent for your own self image.

Competence and maturity are the most important tools for reducing gun deaths, besides improving living conditions in poor areas (as in proper infrastructure, availability of quality resources), as a way to reduce crime.

Sufficient background checks done either by the gov’t or the company that makes the gun (said company would be mandated to pass on information if legal issues arise) would mitigate some of the more violent acts for political reasons.

Just owning guns will do little to nothing to reduce crime but increase the likelihood that emotionally unstable persons might act impulsively. Also, more guns increases the number that will get stolen, serial numbers filed off, and end up being used in crime.

Both sides of argument are retarded. Looking at other countries, the single biggest way to reduce violence is through maturity. The kind not seen in these comments.

When gun laws are removed, crime goes down.
When gun laws are implemented, crime goes up.

This rings false.

BATF has an arguable guess on the total number of guns in ‘civilian’ hands in the US. Gary Kleck pulled some numbers out of BATF data for pre-1948, I believe (I’m away from my library) and then collected the manufacturer and import/export data they compile annually. The net of all that is the approximately 327 million figure for US guns that has been used recently.

It’s highly probable that the distribution is uneven; that is, 327 million guns (if that’s the right number) does not mean 327 million people have access to guns.

General Social Survey and Rasmussen get numbers around 35% for ‘access to guns’ or the equivalent.

But there are ample reasons to suspect telephone surveys on the point are getting bad data – people lying, and providing false negative responses. In this climate, who wants to signal ‘non virtue’ by telling a stranger that the respondent owns one or more guns?

The proposed proxies I have seen used to make estimates – suicides by firearm and sales/subscriptions to gun magazines – are simply nonsense.

Numbers attempting to quantify gun ownership or access by state look like feeble hand-waving. Nobody really knows the details at a level below ‘national’, and that number is pretty soft.

Come on, seesaw did not even comment yet, give the old gal a break 🙂