I think this is the smart view.Paul Arden wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 6:57 pm The problem is Vicente, is that it goes the other way too. If in another life we were both muggers and we thought there was a possibility that those we were going to mug had a gun down their pants, then we would want a gun too. What could just be losing a fly box, or our dignity, turns into a gunfight a OK Corral.
Me personally, I rather live in a world of unarmed muggers… which I do.
I’ve never had a gun pulled on me. Never a knife either. I’ve been in a few pub fights. Never my fault of course, but sometimes it happens. There are people in this world who lose control after a few drinks. Give them access to a gun? Give access to people who are not quite all together in their heads, access to a gun? Give people who are just downright evil.. access to a gun? There is no security in that world.
If you stick me in a fucked up world like that, then I don’t want a gun; I want a tank! But that’s not the world I either live in or want to live in. I want to live in a world where the worst thing I’ll get when a night out goes wrong is a black eye. Arm the muggees and you arm the muggers.
Cheers, Paul
Access to guns causes gun violence. More harm are caused by guns than stopped by guns. Otherwise USA would be the safest and friendliest place in the world.