I feel that but this guy is a legislator. It's his job to apply facts.
But isn't what you say you feel in the post you quoted by Jaskalas also facts? Are you talking facts or statistics? I would say it's factual that there are people in the world who were you to be targeted by them for some reason could easily decide to kill you. In many of such situations, where one's own life is under immediate threat if one had a weapon for self defense the threat could be ended regardless of the relative body strength of either person.
We know for a fact that many people have successfully saved their own lives and or the lives of loved ones by the self-defense use of a firearm. So regardless of whether that arm makes the general population safer of more at risk of shooting themselves or whatever, it still is a fact that there is a possibility that having a gun handy can save a person's life. We can say with certainty, then that if all guns are banned some of people who obey the law will be killed because they lack that form of self defense.
It seems to me that it is the right of self defense is primary among all the rights that exist because each of us is here as a result of ancestors who were among the fittest, those on average who had the skill set to survive, to protect their own lives.
In my opinion, therefore and as a result, any party attempting to ban firearms, a means by which the physically weaker can equalize advantage, is stark raving mad as there is no logic in the world that can replace the will to survive including a statistical analysis that says I'm safer without a gun. To me the logic that if I own a gun I may be able to use it to save my or someone else's life because of it far outweighs the logic that statistically I am at greater risk. I have gotten used to the fact that statistically speaking, of course, life itself is 100% fatal. There is logic and the matter of the logical use of it. We hold differing opinions there. My concern is that the gun issue makes too many people with sound gut instincts vote Republican against so many of their other best self interests.
As with housing so many of societal problems caused by the hate generated by competition simply go unaddressed based always and everywhere on whose ox gets gored. The winners don't want to change the system be they Republicans or Democrats except for changes that don't affect their own personal status and wealth. The country is mentally ill and in deep denial. Fix that and problems will melt away.
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