The most effective and most often used murder weapon

[tortoise1956]

41. Oh, you wound me...

The numbers as stated in the post, using inflated figures that actually skew the results toward a higher figure, come out to around 0.1% of gun owners killing someone in their lifetime. The last time I looked, the CDC said that about twice as many Americans are wounded every year by guns as are killed. (estimate, with very high uncertainty, but I'll use it for now)

So, once again:

1.5 million fatalities = 3 million non-fatalities

allowing for 1/2 the gun deaths to be murder, we arrive at 3.75 million events divided by 80 million gun owners = 4.7%. Since I gave you a break last time, I'll do it again and call it 5%. Once again applying the 10% factor to account for illegal shootings, we come up with 0.5%.

So, using inflated figures, we can say that Beevul's 0.1% figure may not be correct. However, it is STILL much closer than the 3% hogwash you threw out there.

So basically your face is the only one that needs saving - AGAIN - Jimmy the Zero.