[TimSkalaBim]

#43: People can't be trusted to own firearms because they will shoot innocent people, which is proven by Barbara Graham and William Raspberry, who are responsible advocates of gun safety.

[BlueNgold]

Criminals, by definition, have a strict personal code causing them to adhere to public law. That is why gun laws work so well..........

[VRWC_Member428]

#43: People can't be trusted to own firearms because they will shoot innocent people, which is proven by Barbara Graham and William Raspberry, who are responsible advocates of gun safety.

CORRECT VERSION:

#43 POLICE can't be trusted to own firearms because they will shoot innocent people, which is proven by the fact that about 11% of the time police shoot the wrong person, as compared to private citizens shooting the wrong person only 3% of the time.

Anybody have the source for that statistic? I haven't been able to locate it.

If all guns were taken away, then people would stab innocent people. If all knives, swords, etc. were taken away, people would bludgeon innocent people. If hammers, rocks, and all blunt objects in general were taken away, the universe would be made up of two basic elements: gas and liquid.

It's not the guns, it's the people. It's a fact that there will always be people out there who will kill others. It's also a fact that less people would feel free to kill others with impunity if they had to fear for their own life.

An armed society is a polite society.

If you forgot to add a < /sarcasm> tag, sorry for going off like that.