19th April 2007, 8:41 PM
Enough rhetoric!
The only way to decide this is cold hard numbers.
The numbers we need to gather? The number of lives saved because someone was able to protect themselves with a gun vs the number of lives lost in violent crimes due to guns.
That seem a fair way to finally decide this thing?
The only way to decide this is cold hard numbers.
The numbers we need to gather? The number of lives saved because someone was able to protect themselves with a gun vs the number of lives lost in violent crimes due to guns.
That seem a fair way to finally decide this thing?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)