roommateofdennis

It doesn't matter. One can find a verse in the bible which either directly supports any position you care to hold or can be twisted to support it. As Shakespeare said, "The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."

It also doesn't account for the times guns are used to intimidate people or commit crimes but shots weren't fired.

I have had a gun waved at me (but not pointed at me) and I've witnessed a gun pointed out a car window at another car while driving on the Kennedy in Chicago (I was driving behind both). Neither incident would be tallied in the above study.

I've heard people say that without the help of our colonizing microbes we would not be able to live. But what about the "boy in the bubble" -- the kid with no immune system who lived in a hermetic bubble? Certainly microbes are useful, but are the essential?