OK Corral A) 10 Earps arrive unarmed. 100 armed Clantons shoot one Earp 600 times, then beat 8 of them to death with a bungstarter, and finally tar & feather the last one at the family picnic. RESULT: 90% fatalities/10% 3rd degree burns (one died gunshot)

OK Corral B) 10 Earps arrive armed. 100 armed Clantons die in the gunfight versus 2 Earps dead by gunshot. RESULT: being armed makes it twice as likely to be shot

“The OK Corral (Study B) helps resolve the long-standing debate about whether guns are protective or perilous,” notes study author Richard, Aerospace Engineer. “The results are clearly unequivocal” he added.

PS: or maybe they lined up 10 Earps and drilled them all with one teflon coated bullet in Study A.

Kitchen knives don’t ‘cook’ anything dumbass, they cut things.
Vast numbers of people have been killed or maimed by knives and other similar cutting instruments.

If guns are blamed for killing can I blame misspelled words on my pencil?

“@80. vivo: “If you see me carrying a gun, be sure that I will use it. This is 100% reliable data . . .”

. . . I carry all of the time, in 25 years as a police officer in Metro Detroit I have seen lots of people killed because they were unable to defend themselves,”

A cop! That explains a lot. You are right that if one is not trained, the gun is useless.

The point I’m making is that if I carry a gun is because I’m going to use it. I wouldn’t carry a gun for ‘just in case’ situations. Maybe I’m not explaining this scenario well. I will use a gun against an identified aggressor. But this hopefully will never happen because I would avoid or defuse dangerous situations.

LOL.

They can have all the studies they want to, and it won’t change the fact that the more gun control laws they pass…the higher the murder rates have gone.

True in both the USA and the UK. Just compare homicide rates in 1900 (when there was basically no such thing as gun control) to homicide rates in 2000.

I desperately hope that it doesn’t get to that point. The history of armed revolutions is really ugly. The American Revolution is one of the few successes. I worry that if push comes to shove, the sort that will be left standing when the bloodshed stops will be the most ruthless and savage. Nations in internal revolt are often unable to defend their interests abroad.

46. Jim Baker:
……….We may soon find that we finally have to use our firearms for the very reason that the Constitution describes. If that becomes necessary, God help us all.

I hope to be in your foxhole, bud!