Atlantic Writer David Frum Makes Case for Self-Disarmament

[GOYABEAN]

Atlantic Writer David Frum Makes Case for Self-Disarmament

 

[Michael]

Guns, Frum argues, are dangerous.

This statement is about the only thing I agree with. Oddly enough, it's also the reason I own weapons -because it's also much more dangerous to the person on the business end attempting to rob you.

“In virtually every way that can be measured, owning a firearm makes the owner, the owner’s family, and the people around them less safe,” he writes.

Very much disagree. Weapons are stored correctly, children are trained and aware of proper procedure, etc. I would argue that a well (legally) armed household is probably the safest place to be.

As even the authors of the study Frum cites admit, there is a “dearth of data” on this topic: “In the U.S., government officials don’t even have current data on where household gun ownership rates are higher or lower.”

As it should be.

 

[Deplorable Me]

Put him in a S. Chicago public housing project to preach for a week.

 

[Phazer]

Ummm...Mr. Frum.... there are around 30,000 firearm-related deaths in the U.S. each year. 2/3 of those are suicides. Government statistics show that defensive firearms are used between 500,000 and 2,000,000 times a year. If even a fraction of the lowest estimate result in saving innocent lives, then defensive firearms save far more lives than are taken by criminal use of firearms.

So, Mr. Frum, why are you anxious to sacrifice all of those innocent lives for your political crusade?

 

[tirwin1]

Just another entitled so called intellectual who lives safely in a bubble and therefore is quite ignorant of the real world. It's wrong to wish people harm but it would not bother me at all if he had an experience that perhaps changed his smug, arrogant position on this topic.

 

[fresch]

Gwbush speech writer, Canadian/American, fool.