I have experienced all of the above, and none of them will go toe to toe with a gun. Nor, I might add, will any sane user of said non-lethal weapons stick around if presented with lethal force.
The people you trust your safety to, and I am one of them, use a force continuum. In some unfortunate instances deadly force is the only option to resolve a situation.
I understand that you value life very highly, but do you value it above all other things?
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I agree that anyone who chooses to have a gun should absolutely be trained to the point where they are safe with that gun. I don't want my daughter to take a gun class (unless she chooses to do so).
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Why would you not want her to take a gun safety class?
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Would you care to elaborate on this being an absolute? I agree that sociopaths COULD get guns despite a ban, but you act as if they can make them magically appear. They would have to redouble their efforts in order to attain guns in a place where they are almost not available. It would be considerably more difficult, case in point: the UK.
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There are many criminals in the UK with firearms, and the cops there are better armed than most officers in the US.
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We don't because not as many people carry as one would believe, and of them, almost none of them are ever in a situation where they need it. I hope you get my meaning.
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You are right about that last bit, thank God. Most people who do carry simply walk around with a useless couple of pounds of metal on thier waist most of their lives, they don't actively stop any crimes and they don't
commit any crimes. Why are you so worried about them?