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patienceisfun2018 t1_iums544 wrote

I'm not particularly anti-gun like a lot of people on Reddit are, but think about a situation where you would actually use your gun correctly:

-You notice an intruder without them noticing you

-You are able to silently unlatch your gun

-you are able to silently load ammunition into it

-you are able to correctly identify them as an intruder

-you are able to correctly identify a weapon they intend to use on you

-you are able to provide a warning to them

-you are able to correctly aim and hit them in a neutralizing location on their body

-you are able to disarm them safely and call the police.

It seems like what's actually more likely to happen is

-kid accesses the gun and fires it causing a tragedy

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akohhh t1_iupnvra wrote

The person most as risk of harm from a gun is the person who owns it. Half the gun deaths in the US are suicides, and suicide is much more a combo of motive and immediate means than people realize—it’s why adding barriers to landmark bridges is worth bothering with. It’s an incredibly sad statistic amongst the focus on the visceral but numerically much smaller horror of mass shootings.

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