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XPost: wpg.general, can.talk.guns
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:27:29 -0500, penny wrote:
>>As are golf clubs, and baseball bats, but folks still use them
>>recreartionally and enjoy them.
>
>You are wrong. Golf clubs and baseball bats have uses which guns
>don't. The are used recreationally to play team sports, or individual
>and team sports. Their purpose is not to shoot and kill or maim.
>They are not intrinsically dangerous weapons although they are
>sometimes used as dangerous weapons.
Sporting firearms fall under the same catagory as golf clubs and
baseball bats. Recreational target shooting is an accepted sport. It
takes conditioning, practice, skill development, and a degree of
atheletic fitness.
And in Canada, firearms are very seldom used as dangerous weapons
compared to the hundreds of millions of times they are used safely and
legally.
>>Were you aware that studies in some Northern U.S. states show that
>>youth who get firearms safety training and own firearms are far less
>>likely to be involved in gangs, or do anything that will result in
>>criminal charges.
>
>I'd have to see the statistics on that along with a follow-up showing
>how many of them were involved in some kind of illegal shooting
>incidents in their lives.
The studies were done in North Dakota and the followups indicated that
children who took firearms safety training were far less likely to
commit crimes at any time in their lives compared to those individuals
who have commited firearms offences.
Of course it may not be the firearms safety course at work here but
the family values that included taking firearms safety courses. The
same correlation may well be in effect for those children who took
driver safety training before receiving a drivers license.
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