So some years it could be just 1.
But it never is, and never has been. The average is
234,000 a year. 234,000 "responsible gun owners" have their guns stolen
every year on average. That's 641 guns stolen
every day from "responsible gun owners" like you. That's 27 guns
every hour from "responsible gun owners" like you. That's 1 gun stolen
every two minutes from "responsible gun owners" like you.
So yeah, it's a matter of
when, not
if, your gun(s) will be stolen.
It has nothing to do with keeping secrets.
Sure it does! You just said the wife never knew about the guns. So that means the husband was keeping them in secret. Now, why was he keeping them a secret from his wife that he had them?
This is your can of worms that you opened.
My wife doesn't take an inventory of my weapons.
So if you were to kick the bucket tomorrow, you wouldn't have an inventory of your firearms in your will? Or even just lying around? Tsk, tsk...you're not very responsible.
An you have no idea how responsible I am or not.
Based on your abdicating of responsibility for everything, I have a pretty good idea of how irresponsible a person you are.
I told you how I secure my weapons when I'm not home
In 30 plus years I have never has a weapon stolen
YET. You haven't had a weapon stolen
YET. Nothing before this minute matters when the next minute one of your guns is stolen. So it's not a question of
if, but
when. 234,000 "responsible gun owners" a year think like you too, and they turn out to have their guns taken right from under their noses...some, according to you,
don't even know their gun was stolen.
If you're trying to sell me on "responsible gun ownership", you're doing a shit job of it.
You cannot tell me it is inevitable because as much as you would like to believe it you cannot predict the future
True. I cannot predict the future. But I can rely on the statistics to help me get a clearer picture of what will happen in the future. So here's what's going to happen; around a quarter of a million "responsible gun owners" will have their gun stolen from them this year. Of them, 35,000 "responsible gun owners" will not even inform the police their gun was stolen. So at least 35,000 guns will end up on the street, with no one looking for them, and will find their way into the hands of criminals, traffickers, and the like, who will use the 35,000 guns for nefarious reasons, or sell them to other bad people.
So take that 35,000 and multiply it by 10 years and you see that there are approximately 350,000 guns -from just the last ten years alone- that are out there without anyone looking for them, in the hands of God-knows-who.
BTW - in the time it took you to read this post, at least 2 guns were stolen from "responsible gun owners".