[Magdalen] My County responds.

[Charles Wohlers]

Statistics are that a gun in the home is at least ten times more likely to 
be used by someone in the home against someone else in the home, rather than 
for defense. Home invasions by strangers (which is what the defense is 
presumably for) are exceedingly rare in this country.

Chad Wohlers
East Bridgewater, MA USA
chadwohl at satucket.com


-----Original Message----- 
From: Roger Stokes
Sent: Friday, December 04, 2015 7:10 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] My County responds.

On 04/12/2015 22:41, thedonboyd at austin.rr.com wrote:
> On the other hand, there are hundreds of "accidental" gun deaths some of 
> which might have been prevented by such simple already-available 
> expedients as requiring that all firearms be kept in locked safes that 
> require two people to open them.  I recognize that such laws would be hard 
> to enforce, but if they saved any lives at all the effect would not IMO be 
> trivial.

There is a major problem that needs addressing.  If a gun is to be used
to defend one's property and family then it needs to be loaded and
readily accessible.  Where there are children around who are used to the
gun veing around natural curiosity will lead to them wanting to pick it
up and try it.  That can, and does, lead to fatal consequences.  What
are the statistics of a child picking up and firing a gun compared with
a gun being used to successfully defend family and property?

Roger