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Originally Posted by cthulu23
Yeah, because you'll get murdered if you fuck up! Does anyone really want to live in a society where everyone is armed? Who wants to live under the constant fear of gun violence? I don't have a problem with gun ownership, but the idea that ubiquitos firearms will make us all safer is a little hard to swallow.
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Ummm, I think you need to review the differences between "murder" and "justifiable homicide".
Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being by another human being with malice aforethought.
Justifiable homidice is the legal killing of a human being by another human being.
One is legal. One is illegal. If you, as you so eloquently put it, "fuck up" so badly as to get legally shot, your "fuck up" put the other person's life in jeopardy. That's not a fuck up, that's criminal, and the person you're "fucking up" has a right to live, even if it means they have to kill you to do it.
There are around 2.5 MILLION defensive gun uses in this country annually. Most of the time, a shot isn't fired, much less somebody dies. If you live in fear of being shot by people with CCW permits, maybe you should stop breaking the fucking law. Pretty goddamned simple, if you ask me.