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So maybe your logic holds true where you live, but where I live I'd prefer to have a gun because in the event it does happen I'm completely alone and royally screwed without one. Plus target practice is fun.

That brings us to the initial point that while gun ownership and rights may be justified and better for the citizens. Arsenals of automatic weapons and thousands of rounds are not.

Out of those little more than a handful are real accidents, the rest are people being careless. If you follow the three basic rules of gun handling, there'd have to be some serious accident for anyone to get hurt:

1. every gun is loaded, always
2. don't point your loaded gun at anything you are not intending to shoot. if your gun is not loaded, see rule 1.
3. don't put your finger on the trigger unless you are going to shoot whatever is in front of the gun

Aren't accidents usually the result of people being careless ?

The only real accidents which you are talking about would be instances where a gun fired on it's own due to malfunction or the gun is hit hard enough for the firing pin to fire, this rarely ever happens.



Also, your bulletproof guidelines are just rules which apparently thousands of people fail to follow yearly.


A significant number of guns used in crimes are sometimes also legal guns which are either borrowed, stolen, given by friend etc.



I'm not saying that they're all legal but certainly enough to prove the point that while legal guns might be used to thwart crimes they are also used to commit crimes and quite a lot are stolen from actual legal owners.