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>>>If you think the guns are dangerous, look up the statistics on how many have died at the hands of the medical community, or by automobile. Those numbers dwarf handgun deaths.
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>>And? What does one have to do with the other?
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>>I think you have an unfortunate habit of changing the subject when presented with inconvenient facts.
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>Let me help you see the correlation. We're talking about things that make people die. If we are going to discuss those "things", why wouldn't we want to look at the ones that do the most damage before we look at things like the number of deaths caused by spider bites, each year.


There is no correlation whatsoever. Saying we don't need to be concerned about shooting deaths in the U.S. because more people die on the highways or at the hands of the medical profession (whatever that means) makes about as much sense as comparing the number of gun deaths to the number of people who catch the flu every year in Asia. The second number is bigger but it's no excuse for trivializing the first number.

I do listen to and consider views that are different from my own. If they are persuasive I even change my opinion every now and again. It just has to be on a rational basis.