So I'm writing a paper on Gun Control

[mayo 111]

~223 million guns in USA / 29,569 total firearm deaths (suicides = 20,993(71%)) = 1 death per 26,002 firearms
~65 million vehicles in USA / 33,963 total deaths from vehicle crashes = 1 death per 1,913 vehicles
~13.6 X more likely to be killed by a vehicle then a firearm or, firearms are 13.6 X safer then cars
(1998-2001)

do you have the source for this?

[Jake71]

gun control only helps the criminals.

I grew up around guns since I was a baby. My parents taught me that all guns are to be considered loaded always.. well as I grew up I came to realize that around our house they all were. They had either rounds in the magazine with the bolt open or the safety on if they were loaded. We were taught to check before handling it and to unload it if it was going to be cleaned etc..

Basically we grew up respecting guns.

I have friends that grew up with no guns in the house and a mom/dad etc.. that would not let them touch one much less have a squirt gun or cap gun. I don't want to say they are sissy's but they shy away from them when me and my other buddies are checking out each others weapons.

If you grew up with them in the family, generation after generation, then you know to respect them. If you grew up in the city or California, you grew up fearing them and thinking that only criminals had needs for guns (if that justify's it hahah) or police.

[Army]

Gun control laws have never benefitted any society, nor reduced criminal intent.

[Sky_DiveR]

I learned my lesson the hard way when it came to gun control papers and the college professors.. I did a persuasive speech and I had the whole class on my side by the time i was done with it, I actually ended up teaching some of them to shoot. Anyway, I got a D because the professor was EXTREMELY anti-gun. It dropped my overall grade to a C in the class. I was

+1 for me also. I thought I could overcome the class' emotional response to firearms with logic and statistics with references to support my findings but to no avail. From then on, I just kept my mouth shut, did the required curriculum, and got the "H" outta there (with my degree, of course).

Problem is, I had to keep learning this same lesson over and over again in the real world. Even got fired once cuz I told a workmate that I don't discuss firearms, politics, or religion in the workplace and someone overheard us and told the supervisors that since I was talking about guns, she was afraid to work around me (This happened right after a shooting at a post office). Guess I'm kinda dense, to this day, I still have to keep learning that lesson.