This is a bit of an ego battle, for someone who is very confident in their physical and mental skills and preparation, you can't convince one that they would be more of a threat to themselves than others would. Guns don't kill people, people kill people, and if someone believes they themselves are good, and keen people theres nothing to worry about. I've had this exact argument with my father a couple of times. My personal confidence goes beyond all this, see I'm confident if my household has instant access to a gun I would have killed myself at least twice and been killed my by beautiful wife at least once.
The presence of a gun in a domestic violence situation increases the risk of homicide by 500%. It's not just children being 4 times more likely to commit suicide in households with guns. Guns are the No 1 weapon in domestic violence killings in the US – just owning a firearm makes an abuser five times more likely to take a partner’s life. Every 16 hours somewhere in the US, a woman is fatally shot by a current or former intimate partner. The numbers have been soaring: gun homicides by intimate partners jumped 58% over the last decade. To think having a gun makes your wife/girlfriend and children safer is so far from the truth it isn't even funny. Maybe it's a macho thing, or whatever the reason, but it certainly puts your wife and children at more risk of dying than not owning a gun. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/26/domestic-abuse-gun-violence-reveal
Os I respect you as a poster. This is an emotionally charged issue so why don’t we agree to disagree?
fair enough. I was simply trying to make the point that one might elect to own firearms for self-protection, and that his choice is neither irrational nor asinine. And that the numbers involved in making such a choice are not as simple as saying "x number of people die by suicide" or "y number of children die by gunshot."
