Let's look at total population of the U.S. and gun involved crimes,
shooting, deaths and injuries for a 12 month period. There are 271+
million people living in this country. If you add up ALL the figures
that involve death or injury by guns, excluding self defense, you
still have LESS than 1 percent of the population involved. It's more
on the order of .015 percent of the Total U.S. Population that are
directly or indirectly effected by the presents of guns.

 Which sort of indicates that 99 percent of the population is
"perfectly safe" from gun related incidents each year and, that guns
are not much of a problem. Any time you can ASSURE 99 percent of the
population that they WILL be safe from anything, you're doing good.

 Go ahead and do the figures yourself. Take the total population of
this country as your base figure. Add up ALL the categories of gun
related deaths or injuries that you can get your hands on. If the
figures total more than 1 percent of our population (per year) I'll
eat my hat. I was perfectly satisfied when I thought it was around 2
percent, but I couldn't even get the figures up THAT high when I did
the math.

 Folks, there are RISK factors involved in all activities that life
presents to us. The risk factors involved in gun ownership just to NOT
warrant all the fuss that's being made over the subject.

 Mike Eglestone
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 Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little
Temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty or Safety. Nor, are they
likely to end up with either.