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Originally Posted by The_Dunedan
The point is this:
We ( gun-nuts ) desire to posess firearms for, among others, the purpose of defending ourselves from armed criminals.
Moore, among others, wishes to deprive us of the ability to do this by removing our weapons from our posession.
Therefore, for Moore to demand that he be allowed to posess ( or be gaurded by someone who posesses ) a weapon in order to protect himself from armed criminals, but to demand that the rest of us be denied this when we are at considerably greater risk for such an attack than he is, is elitist and hypocritical.
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If guns where illegal, he most likely wouldn't carry them.
Lets try this again.
Lets say owning a gun reduces your chance of being killed by an armed criminal by 25% during an attack.
And lets say if they made guns illegal, 100% of all "law abiding" people would turn in their guns, and shortly half of all guns in the hands of criminals. And lets say this halves the number of times a gun toting criminal attacks.
Notice that, dispite your higher chance of being killed in any one attack, your chance of being attacked dropped enough that your overall chance of being killed is lower.
If this is the case, where is the hypocracy in both owning a gun and wanting guns to be removed?
The gun restriction lobby doesn't typically say "owning guns is evil", they are saying "having many guns out there is unwise". They aren't claiming you are a bad person because you own a gun, or because you want to own a gun.