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[QuasimodoJones]

Meme, re: Spallenzani, guns, and dogs.

Like most things you say, you have no basis for this statement.

Another patented, Spallenzani sniveling cheap shot. Most of the things you've ever said have no basis in fact, only in the debased interpretation of facts you put on them.

Statistics show that entire communities that have a large percentage of gun ownership are avoided by criminals. Even those who do not own guns benefit from the fact that their neighbors do. The same can't be said for dogs.

For someone who's always bleating about the other guy not providing any real statistics, you're pretty blithe in your denial. Where are yours?

Also, lets examine how many children die each year to guns as opposed to dogs. I think you will be surprised with the results.

Truly as definitive an example of your near-gleeful innocence of a subject as one could ever ask. While there are a million dog attacks requiring medical treatment, and about as many that don't receive attention, less than a dozen children die each year of dog attacks. By comparison, even though the numbers are declining over the last few years of reports, in 1995 there were almost twenty times that many child fatalities from accidental gun use.

http://www.avma.org/press/pidogattacks.asp

http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcgvacci.html

Then put a sign on your lawn.

Another clear indication of a neophyte. Putting a sign like "Protected by Smith & Wesson" in your house or car window is tantamount to putting a sign that says, "Diamond ring in bedside table/glove box" in the same place. I can tell you from my acquaintance with petty criminals as a correction officer, and from every conversation on the subject I've ever had with a cop, nothing delights a housebreaker as much as a good prospect of finding a firearm. It's a virtually guaranteed $100-$200, easily concealed and carried away, and can be used if the criminal decides to "move up" in his chosen profession, or for their own self-defense against a homeowner. Putting a sign like that in your car window is surer to get your glove box jimmied than a Blaupunkt stereo in the dash.

As I said before, many more children are killed and injured each year by dogs than guns, so your argument is completely backwards, as usual.

Still as ludicrously preposterous as when you said it the first time. Injured, yes. Killed, no.