GUNS, FLU, AND POGO

Tues. Jan. 15, 2013:

Hello out there.
Is there anyone who can convince me that -- with rare exceptions FOR genuinely threatened & vulnerable individuals -- owning even a single gun is not fatally dumb?
Consider:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/12/opinion/nocera-how-to-shoot-a-gun.html

Is possessing a gun as dumb, or dumber, than not getting a flu shot?
Many pass on the flu shot, and struggle to explain why.

http://epaper.bostonglobe.com/epaper/viewer.aspx

BITESFROMEDWIN'S SAD GROWL OF AN ANSWER:  

THESE ANTI-FLU-SHOT AMERICANS ARE BLEEPING LAZY, SELF-ABSORBED, AND BREATHTAKINGLY STUPID -- JUST LIKE THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF USA's GUN-OWNERS.
AND THE DYSFUNCTIONAL CONGRESS WE NOW WITNESS DAILY IS EXACTLY WHAT OUR IDIOTIC PUBLIC DESERVES.  And the rest of us suffer, mostly in overwhelmed silence.

"WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY, AND HE IS US."
                                                                                 -- Walt Kelly's Pogo, 1952-53 ff.