[geeks] [rescue] Guns - what are they good for? - was Re: TME and Apple II and other Drive emulator questions.

[Phil Stracchino]

On 05/15/14 15:15, Andrew Jones wrote:
> On 05/15/2014 02:02 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> Propaganda aside, the number is FAR fewer than die every year as a
>> result of accidents involving*each of*  bicycles, swimming pools,
>> skateboards, and bathtubs.
> 
> One of these things is not like the others. As you mentioned, deaths by 
> bicycle, swimming pool, skateboard, or bathtub are accidents.

Objection!  Distinction is irrelevant for this purpose.

*TOTAL* actual-child deaths involving firearms are far fewer than the
total deaths from any of these sources.  Whether the deaths by bicycle,
swimming pool, skateboard, or bathtub are intentional or accidental is
irrelevant to that comparison.  If you have a coherent and logically
defensible argument as to why that would not be so, let's hear it.


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