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Dyshade · 10-15-06

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Originally Posted by masochist

I absolutely disagree.

I still prefer the freedom of safety as opposed to having a gun. No I don't want a gun and I don't want you to have a gun either.

I guess most people's fear is that they can't picture a world without guns. When I say "take away guns" you say "but how do I defend myself against all the people with guns?"

If tomorrow I could make every single gun in the world disappear. Poof! Gone in a cloud of glitter. Would you say "Go ahead, no gun violence ever again. Wicked" or would you say "No. I love how I have the right to bear arms. I like how my neighbours are armed, I like how criminals are armed. I like how our police are armed. I like how our children have access to arms. This is freedom."

Guess what. Bob in NZ owns a handgun, his house gets burgled and his handgun gets stolen, now a criminal has the gun but he knows that everyone else including honest citizens can have one so he is a bit nervous about using it. BUT the point is that now a criminal has one

And your IF is not a part of reality. The reality is that guns are going nowhere. They are here. You can either learn to live with them and use them for what they were designed for, or you can live in abject foolish fear of them and cringe everytime you hear the word "guns".

Just the other day 4 polynesians jumped out of a black suv and beat up and robbed two innocent guys who are working at Nightmare On 13th which is a haunted house. They were just a couple of innocent working men, now beaten and broke due to some assholes who could have been deterred from thier criminal activities were one of the innocent men armed. Instead they were both hospitalized. Animals like that regard one thing highly, violent opposition or the thought of mortal bodily harm. Elsewise they gleefully beat on whomever they choose until stopped.

It is ridiculous and illogical to think that just because you disarm a populace gun crime will end. Sev eral nations have already proven that this is not the case

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