Child abduction victim found after 18 years in captivity

That woud make sense IF WE WERE PREVENTING EVERYONE FROM POSTING.

DrewDad wrote:

And they all fly in the face of the evidence that having a gun in the home actually makes one less safe.

That 's NONSENSE.

MYTH: Keeping guns in the home increases personal protection.

TRUTH: Obviously, self defense is not a good argument against gun control since those who own firearms are actually more likely to be victims of homicide. Two studies published in The New England Journal of Medicine revealed that keeping a gun in the home increases the risk of both suicide and homicide. Keeping a gun in the home makes it 2.7 times more likely that someone will be a victim of homicide in your home (in almost all cases the victim is either related to or intimately acquainted with the murderer) (source) and 4.8 times more likely that someone will commit suicide (source). Guns make it more likely that a suicide attempt will be successful than if other means were used such as sleeping pills.

Guns in the Home - A Greater Risk to Family and Friends

* For every time a gun is used in a home in a legally-justifiable shooting [note that not every self-defense is legally justifiable] there are 22 criminal, unintentional, and suicide-related shootings.16

* The presence of a gun in the home triples the risk of homicide in the home.17

* The presence of a gun in the home increases the risk of suicide fivefold.18

Multiple studies have shown, however, that rather than being protective, having a gun in the home greatly increases the chances of a household resident being shot and killed or injured.[36,37,38,39,40,41,42]

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36. Kellerman AL, Rivara FP, Rushforth NB, Banton JG, Reay DT, Francisco JT, et al. Gun ownership as a risk factor for homicide. N Engl J Med 1993;329:1084-1091.
37. Cummings P, Koepsell TD, Grossman DC, Savarino J, Thompson RS. The association between the purchase of a handgun and homicide or suicide. Am J Pub Health 1997;87:974-978.
38. Kellerman AL, Rivara FP, Somes G, Reay DT, Francisco J, Banton JG, et al. Suicide in the home in relation to gun ownership. N Engl J Med 1992;327:467-472.
39. Kellerman AL, Reay DT. Protection or peril. An analysis of firearm-related deaths in the home. N Engl J Med 1986;314:1557-1560.
40. Rushforth NB, Hirsch CS, Ford AB, Adelson L. Accidental firearm fatalities in a metropolitan county (1958-1973). Am J Epidemiol 1975;100:499-505.
41. Shah S, Hoffman RE, Wake L, Marine WM. Adolescent suicide and household access to firearms in Colorado: results of a case-control study. J Adolesc Health 2000;26:157-163.
42. Kellerman AK, Somes G, Rivara FP, et al. Injuries and deaths due to firearms in the home. J Trauma 1998;45:263-267.

In the interview published by The Register, Ms. Dugard recounted the moment she was reunited with Jaycee, who she said exclaimed “Auntie Tina!” when they saw each other.

“She remembered me right away,” Ms. Dugard is quoted as saying, adding that Jaycee and her children seemed to have “a sense of comfort and optimism, a sense of happiness.”

“People probably want to think that it’s been this horrible, scary thing for all of us,” Ms. Dugard told The Register. But, she said, “the horrible, scary thing happened 18 years ago.”

Now, her niece seems like “a 29-year-old woman,” Ms. Dugard said. “She’s fabulous and she’s beautiful.”

Jaycee Dugard and her children apparently had greater access to the outside world than initial reports indicated, Ms. Dugard said, adding that she had been impressed by the intellect of the children, who apparently are named Angel and Starlite. Both children can read and write, she said, despite having been forbidden to attend school.

“It’s clear they’ve been on the Internet and know a lot of things,” Ms. Dugard said. “It’s clear that Jaycee did a great job with the limited resources that she had and her limited education.”

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In the interview published by The Register, Ms. Dugard recounted the moment she was reunited with Jaycee, who she said exclaimed “Auntie Tina!” when they saw each other.

“She remembered me right away,” Ms. Dugard is quoted as saying, adding that Jaycee and her children seemed to have “a sense of comfort and optimism, a sense of happiness.”

“People probably want to think that it’s been this horrible, scary thing for all of us,” Ms. Dugard told The Register. But, she said, “the horrible, scary thing happened 18 years ago.”

Now, her niece seems like “a 29-year-old woman,” Ms. Dugard said. “She’s fabulous and she’s beautiful.”

Jaycee Dugard and her children apparently had greater access to the outside world than initial reports indicated, Ms. Dugard said, adding that she had been impressed by the intellect of the children, who apparently are named Angel and Starlite. Both children can read and write, she said, despite having been forbidden to attend school.

“It’s clear they’ve been on the Internet and know a lot of things,” Ms. Dugard said. “It’s clear that Jaycee did a great job with the limited resources that she had and her limited education.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/us/04abduct.html?hp

OmSigDAVID wrote:

That woud make sense IF WE WERE PREVENTING EVERYONE FROM POSTING.

David, preventing people from posting isn't the only way to be disruptive in a thread. Enough volume of just about anything (even on topic posts) can be disruptive and is, in my opinion, something to be considerate about.

OmSigDAVID wrote:

DrewDad wrote:

And they all fly in the face of the evidence that having a gun in the home actually makes one less safe.

That 's NONSENSE.

http://www.guninformation.org/

Quote:

MYTH: Keeping guns in the home increases personal protection.

TRUTH: Obviously, self defense is not a good argument against gun control since those who own firearms are actually more likely to be victims of homicide. Two studies published in The New England Journal of Medicine revealed that keeping a gun in the home increases the risk of both suicide and homicide. Keeping a gun in the home makes it 2.7 times more likely that someone will be a victim of homicide in your home (in almost all cases the victim is either related to or intimately acquainted with the murderer) (source) and 4.8 times more likely that someone will commit suicide (source). Guns make it more likely that a suicide attempt will be successful than if other means were used such as sleeping pills.

http://www.bradycampaign.org/issues/gvstats/firearmoverview/

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Guns in the Home - A Greater Risk to Family and Friends

* For every time a gun is used in a home in a legally-justifiable shooting [note that not every self-defense is legally justifiable] there are 22 criminal, unintentional, and suicide-related shootings.16

* The presence of a gun in the home triples the risk of homicide in the home.17

* The presence of a gun in the home increases the risk of suicide fivefold.18

will it be like field of dreams

if i start it will they come

the mind boggles