---Aussiegunneragain--- Well, I can see that from the personal attacks that are being thrown about by those who aren't interested in any pov but their own, that this conversation is going knowhere.---

So instead of actually addressing my points (or the points made by any of the people made here, ya know, another point of view?) you decide instead to throw up some phony screen about being insulted and project your own short comings on others? Why?

You have not addressed any of the points I have made (especially in light of your LIE regarding what I said) nor have you addressed the points others have made where you have used the tragedy of a CRIMINAL to cheapen the lives of those who were killed just because you appear to wet yourself at the thought of a responsible, law abiding citizen owning firearms.

Well that is obviously bovine excrement as you can buy firearms cheaply in the United States and yet the supply of firearms, in the TENS OF MILLIONS does not even begin to approach the limited number of criminal offenses committed with firearms annually.

50 - 100 million firearms in a nation of 300 million and we have what, a few thousand criminal acts per year and you want to deprive law abiding citizens of their property?

How do you rationalize the fact that EVER YEAR legal firearm ownership increases and EVERY YEAR violent crimes DROP in America? How?!

Quote: ---Guns prevent an estimated 2.5 million crimes a year, or 6,849 every day.65 Often the gun is never fired and no blood (including the criminal?s) is shed.---

Quote: ---Every day, 550 rapes, 1,100 murders, and 5,200 other violent crimes are prevented just by showing a gun. In less than 0.9% of these instances is the gun ever actually fired.---

Quote: ---Washington D.C. has essentially banned gun ownership since 1976and has a murder rate of 56.9 per 100,000. Across the river in Arlington, Virginia, gun ownership is less restricted. There, the murder rate is just 1.6 per 100,000, less than three percent of the Washington, D.C. rate.---

Quote: ---90% of all violent crimes in the U.S. do not involve firearms of any type.---

 Quote: --- Less than 1% of firearms will ever be used in the commission of a crime.---

Quote: ---Most crime guns are either bought off the street from illegal sources (39.2%) or through family members or friends (39.6%).---

Quote: ---In 83.5% (2,087,500) of these successful gun defenses, the attacker either threatened or used force first, proving that guns are very well suited for self-defense. ---

Quote: ---Of the 2,500,000 times citizens use guns to defend themselves, 92% merely brandish their gun or fire a warning shot to scare off their attackers. ---

Quote: ---For every accidental death, suicide, or homicide with a firearm, 10 lives are saved through defensive use.---