[ceejayoz]

> And the CDC disagrees with that assessment.

We're talking about the organization that was forbidden from spending money on firearms injury research, right?

> That’s 308,745,538. Of those 308 million people, only 600 were accidentally killed with a firearm.

Ah, clever. Take a discussion of homicide/suicide and start presenting stats on accidental deaths as if it were at all relevant.

To return to the actual point, if you have a gun in the house, it's far more likely to be used by your kid to kill themselves as you are to be confronted by a machete wielding lunatic. On a non-anedoctal level, the stats just don't work.