US is filled with cowards

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They fear to take helpless refugee women and children hunted by ISIL because of their innate pusillanimity.

Britons are made of sterner stuff.
 
Many of America's conservative are filled with fear, the entire motive for any action is fear.
 
Legion Troll said:
Then why are they scared, since America has so many guns?

Damocles says guns enabled the Taliban to expel the Russians, doesn't he?
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When you suffer from an all-consuming IRRATIONAL fear, as so many conservatives do, all the guns in the world aren't enough to feel safe.
 
ZappasGuitar said:
I've never feared for my or my family's safety and I don't own a single gun.

So NO, they don't keep you safe.
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I've never feared the grey aliens, but that doesn't mean nobody has ever been abducted.

Defensive Gun Use, in the lower spectrum happens in the hundreds of thousands per year, at the high 2 million. (link below)

As with everything else concerning guns in this country, the DGU question prompts divergent answers. At one end of the spectrum, the NRA cites research by Gary Kleck, an accomplished criminologist at Florida State University. Based on self-reporting by survey respondents, Kleck has extrapolated that DGU occurs more than 2 million times a year. Kleck doesn’t suggest that gun owners shoot potential antagonists that often. DGU covers various scenarios, including merely brandishing a weapon and scaring off an aggressor.

At the other end of the spectrum, gun skeptics prefer to cite the work of David Hemenway, an eminent public-health scholar at Harvard University. Hemenway, who analogizes gun violence to an epidemic and guns to the contagion, argues that Kleck’s research significantly overestimates the frequency of DGU.


The carping back and forth gets pretty technical, but the brief version is that Hemenway believes Kleck includes too many “false positives”: respondents who claim they’ve chased off burglars or rapists with guns but probably are boasting or, worse, categorizing unlawful aggressive conduct as legitimate DGU. Hemenway finds more reliable an annual federal government research project, called the National Crime Victimization Survey, which yields estimates in the neighborhood of 100,000 defensive gun uses per year. Making various reasonable-sounding adjustments, other social scientists have suggested that perhaps a figure somewhere between 250,000 and 370,000 might be more accurate.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2012-12-27/how-often-do-we-use-guns-in-self-defense

I've never had to use my life insurance policy, but that doesn't mean I'm cancelling it either.
 
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