Originally Posted by willravel

If you want them, fine. I respect your wish to defend yourself. I don't want them, though. In the end, it all boils down to the allowing of more violence, and I can't agree with that. The more guns on the street, the less safe I will feel. I know how irresponsible people can be with important things like driving or voting or reproduction, and I don't trust them at all with guns. Frankly, I don't trust anyone with guns. Also, the issue of escalation has to be addressed. If violent criminals feel that more people are carrying handguns, they'll get bigger guns. The populace will get bigger guns, then what? We have a heavely armed populace against heavely armed criminals and no one benifits from that.

Lethal self defence isn't self defence. Prevention is self defence. Running is self defence. Disarming the attacker is self defence. Shooting dead a homeless kid in a 7-11 with a knife is murder, and murder is wrong.