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MYTH: "A handgun in a home is 43 times more likely to kill one of the residents than a criminal."
This is a bogus statistic from an MD named Arthur Kellerman back in the 90's. If you remove the suicides from his sampling, his statistic is now "6 times more likely". Most of his remaining "victims" were multiple criminals living together, where one shot the other in a fight. He lets you assume they were normal families just like yours, by counting gun-death statistics for criminal households together with those of traditional families. (Polsby and Brennen, "Taking Aim At Gun Control" 1995). He has repeatedly refused the opportunity to debate speakers on the other side of the issue.
You make a lot of valid points. Unfortunately, getting firearms owners off their behinds to act in concert for their own best interest, is literally like the proverbial 'herding cats'. While we are agonizing about 501, some of the same culprits have now introduced SB275 "safe storage". They don't care about what anyone thinks, they just want the money from Henry Wessinger. It just so happens the provisions in SB275, and the storage provisions of SB501 have already been ruled unconstitutional by the SC.
"This bill has a particular negative impact on personal choice and responsibility. This bill is so intrusive into the private home that the Supreme Court has explicitly ruled trigger lock requirements to be unconstitutional in DC v. Heller (2008). This protection was extended to the states through the due process clause of the 14th amendment in the Supreme Court McDonald v. Chicago decision. Attempts to introduce this type of legislation amount to knowingly trying to deprive the citizenry of their rights under color of law."
SB 275 Requiring locked container or trigger locks for firearms :: Oregon Citizens Lobby
These morons are actually committing felonies by even proposing this crap. The real answer is to find a way to start getting them prosecuted.