LogFAQs > #926130448

The left-right paradigm ignores the other half of the compass, the authoritarian-libertarian divide. And leftists are certainly fine with entrusting things to a central authority.

Mead posted...

gun control promotes a basic freedom of safety and security for everyone

Gun ownership does that.

Gaawa_chan posted...

btw... gun control =/= anti 2nd amendment.

And yet its loudest proponents want a total ban on guns.

Gaawa_chan posted...

1 out of 4 people who choose to kill themselves do so within a 5 minute period.

Overlooking the lack of a citation, something like that would be impossible to prove anyway.

Yellow posted...

Statistically, guns are more likely to be abused and kill someone in your house than you are likely to kill an intruder. People on the left are generally intelligent enough to understand that you are endangering your family by owning a gun.

1- The intruder *is* somebody in your house

2- Statistically, if you're going to kill a resident of your house, not having a gun doesn't really change that. Murder and domestic abuse still happens. After all, statistically speaking a friend or family member is more likely to be killed in your home than a stranger regardless of the weapon involved.

3- I can't help but suspect that the statistics are likely intentionally skewed by spouses/partners trespassing in the home after being kicked out or having a restraining order filed.
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