If you outlaw guns, then only....

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Ok, gun control aside, would there be fewer deaths in America if there were no handguns? Simple question: only Yes or No answers accepted.

You don't get to control the discussion. Who do you think you are, tw?

Do you understand that most legal defensive uses of firearms--about three-quarters of them--don't involve actually firing the weapon, but simply being willing to do so? When we include cases where only a warning shot was fired, the rate rises to 92%.

That's the major fallacy of the "guns have no purpose besides killing" crowd. Of course, those cases are almost never reported by the media, and are often not reported to the cops. Legal defensive use of firearms involving discharging the weapon is seriously unreported in the media as well.