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Originally Posted by willravel
. 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.
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Well, That theory seems to work just fine for the worlds largest and most powerful countries. I have no problem applying it to general citizens.
The best example ever is the USA and the USSR. continually eying each other sideways and building bigger and bigger weapons with witch to destroy each other. That mutually assured destruction never happened because both sides knew just how big the other guys gun was.
I personally would have no problem knowing the bad guys on the street had full auto asault rifles. Not if I had one too, and the guy across the street from me. and mabey the guy driving by. And the guy loading groceries into hes truck, the truck with the mini gun mounted in the bed...
Criminal activity will always occur but I feel that violent use of guns would droop in most situations if more people had them. I've said it before, a couple of guys with guns will think twice about using them to rob a store or car jack someone if they know everyone else around them is just as heavily armed as they are.