3. Americans are ten times more likely to die from firearms than citizens of other ...

Americans are ten times more likely to die from firearms than citizens of other developed countries, and differences in overall suicide rates across different regions in the US are best explained by differences in firearm availability, are among the findings in a new study

And yet you conveniently failed to answer my question. If the NRA released a study stating the opposite of this one, you wouldn't find it slightly suspect?

I am not arguing emotionally, I am simply skeptical of a study like this coming from a historically anti-gun organization. I maintain that biased information is useless, and I find it very difficult to believe that this study is 100% unbiased. I am not refuting the statistics. I am voicing my disagreement with the presentation of those statistics, and how they actually apply to the situation. I won't go over it again as it's been explained in-depth several times in this thread, but it makes very little sense to compare the entire United States to other countries that are barely the size of some of our states.

I have never said that these studies and statistics are not true. I am not a scientist, and I have no way of conducting my own such studies. What I take issue with is the use of these studies to push further firearm restriction. When I read this study, I just imagine the ways it could be used to present an argument for more gun laws.

I hope you understand that I am not being emotional, as you seem to think. I'm a very logical thinker by nature, and I make an effort to remain objective in these matters. I, more than a lot of people, understand that my personal feelings have no place in this discussion. My father once said that emotions are the spices of life. They should enhance the experience, but they should never control the dish. I've always kept those words in the back of my mind.

On a personal note, I'm glad you own guns, and I'd recommend hitting some of the larger gun shows for that SKS. I have a growing collection of surplus military rifles myself, and they all came from the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot in Kentucky.

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