[QUOTE="SUD123456"][QUOTE="kayoticdreamz"] id rather have the worst aiming person in the world have a gun on him on this situation as it is still far better than being completely and totally defenseless. secondly if that guy starts shooting and see 20 people pop out a gun he has no idea the guns are loaded or not and he must make a decision fire one more shot and die or lay down and surrender its basic stuff here. and those 20 guns could be empty and unloaded but he sure as hell would not know. see? a crazy man isnt going to go in and shoot down a mall if he knows the majority are armed because thats simply nuts one man with a gun doesnt take on a whole army. let me also ask you this...if you are a burglar are you going to rob the neighborhood that you know is a gun free zone and no one owns a gun or the one that has people that own guns? guns deter criminals is the bottom line. criminals want easy targets armed people are not easy targets. hell there is no reason in a free land the people should not be armed. any attempt to block gun ownership is a clear sign of a tyrant as only a tyrant would have any rational reason to rob me of my right to own a gun and carry it as a please. its for self defense against criminals and tyrants. plain and simple.BMD004
And yet the country with the largest amount of guns, particularly handguns has the highest per capita violent crime rate and the highest per capita murder rate. By far.
It is far to simplistic to argue that more guns make people safer.
As for your argument about tyrants :) it ismeaningless circular reasoning. I must have guns to protect myself from tyrants. Anyone who doesn't want me to have guns is a tyrant. Therefore, I must have guns both because I want them and because you don't want me to have them :) Unless you do want me to have them. bIt's a win win. Guns for everyone.
You might want to pause and ask yourself what is so broken with your society that you live in such fear that you feel guns are necessary?
What the hell? The country with the largest amount of guns per capita is Switzerland, and it has one of the LOWEST violent crime rates in the world. Secondly, there are countries like Mexico where guns are ILLEGAL, yet it is one of the most violent countries. I didn't say guns per capita. I said total amount of guns.
Also, Switzerland is all about rifles issued to the militia. Those rifles are locked up in cases when not in use. They do not exist for defence against criminals. Nor do they exist for defense against their own gov't.
Meanwhile, I never said that the absence of guns automatically makes things safer. Indeed, I do believe I made it quite clear that the issue is whether your society is broken or not that matters. Quite clearly things are broken in Mexico's drug war areas. Also quite clearly having a gun in those areas is no defence.
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