The End Of Appraisers!

[residentialguy]

G.A.S.P.

Guns Against Swimming Pools...If you really want to save innocent lives

 

[residentialguy]

What is wrong with a tazer or stun gun? You or your kids cannot kill themselves with one of those, yet it will completely immobilize any intruder. And here's the best part. Everybody stays alive, and you get to enjoy watching the criminal rot in jail. Killing them would be letting them off the hook.

Thats just my view on it.

Don't get too comfortable, they're getting out fairly soon....and they're ticked off at you. Even convicted murderers get out to kill again.

 

[Ken B]

Don't get too comfortable, they're getting out fairly soon....and they're ticked off at you. Even convicted murderers get out to kill again.

I would be more concerned about forgetting to buckle my seatbelt.

 

[Highlander416]

It's not about "saving the children". It's about getting guns away from the citizens.

 

[rescom]

This is off topic but what the hey.

Accoridng to Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner, in Freakonomics, First Harper Perenial Edition, 2009, Chapter 5, Page 150: about 175 children (on average) die each year from gunshots (1 death for each 1 million guns). However, there is one child drowned for each 11,000 swimming pools.

The risk of your child drowning in a pool is far, far, far greater than his or her risk of being shot to death.

Conclusion, those whining about shooting deaths, terrible as such deaths are, would save many more lives if they devoted their energy to banning swimming pools.

Should be ban ponds and lakes too? Swimming pools aren't bought for the sole purpose of ending someones life. Guns are. Plastic bags can be dangerous. Outlets can be dangerous. Anything in a house can be dangerous, but most are necessities. Guns aren't. Accidents can happen with anything in or around a house. But to intentionally bring in a deadly weapon, for the miniscule chance that you just might need to shot someone someday, seems very irresponsible and ludicrous to me.

People don't think to cover their pools because they think of it as a happy and fun thing. There is danger everywhere in this world. I just don't think that bringing more weapons into society is helping anything.

It scares me to think how many people there are out there walking around with guns on them. Standing right next my family.

Suppose you have a conflict with someone at some store. They pull a gun on you. You don't have a gun. You back down and try and calm down the situation and the gunman leaves. Nobody dies.

Or you could have a conflict with someone, they pull a gun and you aren't going to take it because you're going to be a big man and protect yourself, so you go to pull yours, and Bang, you're dead.

So we have one gun held by a criminal, nobody dies. Two guns, one dead. Now suppose eveybody in the store felt threatened and they all pulled their guns. It would be a massacre.

Tell me again how having a gun is supposed to protect you.

:new_2gunsfiring_v1:

 

[residentialguy]

So we have one gun held by a criminal, nobody dies. Two guns, one dead. Now suppose eveybody in the store felt threatened and they all pulled their guns. It would be a massacre.

Drama much?

 

[PL1957]

Conclusion, those whining about shooting deaths, terrible as such deaths are, would save many more lives if they devoted their energy to banning swimming pools.

That's OK, in SuperFreakonomics they point out that you are much more likely to get killed while walking drunk, as opposed to getting killed while driving drunk.

They also have a nice discussion regarding prostitutes and school teachers ...

 

[Ken B]

Should be ban ponds and lakes too? Swimming pools aren't bought for the sole purpose of ending someones life. Guns are. Plastic bags can be dangerous. Outlets can be dangerous. Anything in a house can be dangerous, but most are necessities. Guns aren't. Accidents can happen with anything in or around a house. But to intentionally bring in a deadly weapon, for the miniscule chance that you just might need to shot someone someday, seems very irresponsible and ludicrous to me.

People don't think to cover their pools because they think of it as a happy and fun thing. There is danger everywhere in this world. I just don't think that bringing more weapons into society is helping anything.

It scares me to think how many people there are out there walking around with guns on them. Standing right next my family.

Suppose you have a conflict with someone at some store. They pull a gun on you. You don't have a gun. You back down and try and calm down the situation and the gunman leaves. Nobody dies.

Or you could have a conflict with someone, they pull a gun and you aren't going to take it because you're going to be a big man and protect yourself, so you go to pull yours, and Bang, you're dead.

So we have one gun held by a criminal, nobody dies. Two guns, one dead. Now suppose eveybody in the store felt threatened and they all pulled their guns. It would be a massacre.

Tell me again how having a gun is supposed to protect you.

:new_2gunsfiring_v1:

I had someone walk into my office a few years ago who proceeded to make physical threats against me. I didn't have a gun, but if he had made one step towards me, he would have found out how painful a cup of hot coffee to the face could be. Or perhaps it was a paperweight against the head. Or maybe a pen to the eye. Or maybe my teeth ripping off his ear.

But if he had a gun and I did not, I could have been dead before I could have done any of the other things.

Thanks to 12 years in the Marines, I am pretty good with both pistol and rifle. But I am well trained in their safe and accurate use. I think someone going into Walmart and buying a weapon and then thinking themself badass is an extraordinarily dangerous thing. I advocate gun licensure and the requirement for passing a safety class in order to obtain that license.

And yes, I understand the argument that when guns are outlawed, only criminals will have guns. In that event, I might just be considered a criminal.

 

[rescom]

Drama much?

Maybe. But I think I got my point across.

 

[Calvin the Airedale]

Should be ban ponds and lakes too? Swimming pools aren't bought for the sole purpose of ending someones life. Guns are. No they are not. (Unless of, course you're business is crime.) They are bought for the sole purpose of protecting oneself or one's property. Plastic bags can be dangerous. Outlets can be dangerous. Anything in a house can be dangerous, but most are necessities. Guns aren't. Neither are swimming pools but you cannot argue that they are not 100 times more dangerious to children than guns. Accidents can happen with anything in or around a house. Including guns. But to intentionally bring in a deadly weapon, for the miniscule chance that you just might need to shot someone someday, seems very irresponsible and ludicrous to me.

People don't think to cover their pools because they think of it as a happy and fun thing. There is danger everywhere in this world. I just don't think that bringing more weapons into society is helping anything.

It scares me to think how many people there are out there walking around with guns on them. Standing right next my family. And yet your family still lives!

Suppose you have a conflict with someone at some store. They pull a gun on you. You don't have a gun. You back down and try and calm down the situation and the gunman leaves. Nobody dies. Unless the guy shoots you just for the hell of it, which seems to happen an aweful lot nowadays.

Or you could have a conflict with someone, they pull a gun and you aren't going to take it because you're going to be a big man and protect yourself, so you go to pull yours, and Bang, you're dead.

So we have one gun held by a criminal, nobody dies. Two guns, one dead. Now suppose eveybody in the store felt threatened and they all pulled their guns. It would be a massacre.

Tell me again how having a gun is supposed to protect you.

:new_2gunsfiring_v1:

The stories of legal, law abiding concealed carry permit holders pulling guns in anger or unprovoked conflict are so rare as to be the stuff of urban legends. That is to say, you're making these stories up.

The stories of children drowning in pools, however, is a much more frequent event.

If you don't want to carry a gun, good for you. May all your troubles be small ones. But don't project your paranoid fears to every law abiding adult in society, who has the right to make that choice for himself or herself. I say law abiding because many of the criminals already carry guns, whether you like it or not.