Wolfe and his fiancée, who witnessed the alleged assault, believe the attack was related to Wolfe being transgender, according to court documents.
Wolfe and his fiancée, who witnessed the alleged assault, believe the attack was related to Wolfe being transgender, according to court documents.
You are far, far more likely to be killed by your own gun than murdered. Guns are a tremendously bad idea.
Note that the centrist fails to spell out what this statistic means and instead says “killed by your own gun” as if a mean ghost posesses the gun and it sprouts legs and beats you to death
an interpretation that isn’t a deliberate lie would look something like this: the presence of a gun in a home makes attempted suicides and domestic violence more likely to be fatal, and also sometimes correlates with (not causes) increased threat of violence and decreased access to safety from the police
and none of those problems (except for the suicide one, obviously remove your access to guns if that seems like an attractive option at all) is fixed by not getting a gun
I wonder what the statistics since he took office again how attacks on LEGBT+ and left leaning people have been. We’re reaching a point where the left needs to arm up to defend themselves from a violent reactionary wing of the country like said reactionaries needed it to defend themselves.
I think it’d also be important to break down statistics based on political ideology anymore with firearms. I have a different mentality and belief in what owning a firearm is as opposed to your typical reactionary.
listen, those are great ideas, but this guy is not going to investigate them
Yeah, probably not, but it’d be interesting statistics none the less.
Of course it’s solved by not getting a gun - the guns in suicide and domestic violence don’t materialize on their own.
how many suicides do you think the average person is involved in
do you think that if x% of people attempt suicide, that your individual chance of attempting suicide is x%
I think the chances of someone successfully committing suicide dramatically increases if they have access to a gun.
Cool. As an adult, I like to be able to weigh positives and negatives and make my own decisions.
Since you like numbers, what are the odds these days of getting murdered by a fascist if you don’t have a gun?
Approaching zero?
A drunk guy attacked a STRANGER–the WRONG stranger–for having pride flags on his porch. Even if this stuff is less common than in the past, it’s far from gone.
I’m guessing if Wolfe said “Get off my property or I’ll shoot you” it might have deterred Jones more than a baseball bat. Maybe not, but the gun still gives you an edge if/when it comes to a fight.
As others have said, if you believe the dangers of a gun in your home outweigh the benefits, then by all means don’t own one. I just don’t think it’s “terrible” advice to own a gun and keep it in a safe location.
The danger of a gun FAR outweighs the vanishingly rare outliers where a gun is helpful. There is no question about this. Only fevered gun-fondlers can manage to confuse themselves on this issue. It’s very very clear.
More like wildly increasing from what was near zero for decades.
It is still approaching zero, unlike the very much higher risk of being killed with your own gun.
an alcoholic’s chance of getting blackout drunk dramatically increases if they have access to alcohol
does my chance of getting blackout drunk increase if I have access to alcohol (no, it remains zero)
we can all see you deliberately mixing up “the general public” and “a specific named individual,” it is obvious fuckery
we are talking about populations, not some specific individual.
you literally told a specific individual not to get a gun
Right - because owning a gun dramatically increases their chances of being the victim of gun violence.
Out of curiosity, how do those stats look if you exclude white cis males?
I’m not sure. I’d have to look that up.