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Originally Posted by willravel
The more guns on the street, the less safe I will feel.
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We've already seen what promoting a
feeling of safety does for actual safety. I'd rather
be safer than
feel safer.
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Originally Posted by willravel
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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Does not follow. The value of a gun in criminal enterprise is the large power disparity created against an unarmed victim. There is only marginal gain for "bigger gun" over "normal gun". Also, the gun may merely be a pacification prop for the criminal- he brings it out to encourage cooperation, not to use it. While a criminal is busy threatening you with his "bigger gun" is an ideal time to shoot him.
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Originally Posted by willravel
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.
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How would you use a 7-11 with a knife to shoot a homeless kid? And if the homeless kid isn't doing anything (like, say, stabbing someone with a knife while trying to rob a 7-11), shooting him would be bad.