I’m no mathmetician, and certainly would not qualify as a genius. I do however have some basic math skills which I put to the test the other day.

According to varying sources, a home with a gun in it is 50 percent more likely to have a friend or relative killed in it than an intruder. Ok, so I rounded up a bit. I said I was bad at math. The Brady people would be glad I did that.

I have eighteen guns. Two of them do not fire at all, they are late 1800′s wall relics, so I just won’t count them. One is a dueling pistol, but it shoots well, so might as well count it. That is sixteen weapons which can be loaded and fired. No rubber band guns, though!

Seems to me that with sixteen guns my odds would be multiplied and add up to a whopping 800% kill factor in my own home. Um, isn’t it true that 100% is good for work, paint jobs, and being dead? I mean, seriously. If You are 100% percent of anything, then you are that thing, whatever it is. That means my home is 100% likely that we will have a firearm incident and kill a family member, and I suppose the other 700% is just along for the ride.

I’m not sure what the time frame is, but you’d think in ten years somebody besides skunks, possums and snakes would be shot, unless of course they are considered family members, which would fit with the figures. I did not consider them friends, of course.

I guess in conclusion one may safely swing either direction. I’m either a major statistic (there would be better ones since others own more guns) for the pure load of horse crap that gun control is, or if you consider varmints to be “lives” as opposed to just animals, then I am indeed a dangerous human being who lives up to expectation. Now HCI might go along with the last one.

My point with this little tretise is there should be a hell of a lot more dead gun owners and families. The other reason for writing it is that to me it seemed a little bit amusing as I scrubbed the .38 I bought last week. That makes gun number 19. Oh boy, now we are at 850%!

Gene