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Originally Posted by Willravel
If I punched you in the face, you'd punch me back. I know you would. The same thing works for "if you shoot at me, I'll shoot at you right back." It's self-defense either way.
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no, you don't know that I would. I might ask you what the hell you did it for, and if there was no good cause, you'd best be buying me quite a few damned beers. now, if you continued to throw punches, then that's another issue.
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Originally Posted by biznatch
I do read a lot of news actually. Maybe not the usual alarmist reactionary "be scared" news, so it has less about individual shootings/murders than world events, but I like to think I keep up sufficiently to have an opinion. Mine is that guns don't belong in big cities.
Now, I can be wrong about this, and there's no real way for me to know whether (increased) licensed gun ownership would increase or decrease gun-related deaths, but I think it wouldn't help.
Chicago is not violent because handguns are too few, I think it has more to do with history, corruption, and poor funding for an effective police force.
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With the kind of cops they have in chicago, if they funded more, y'all would be in serious trouble. That and it's been ruled many times that the police have no obligation or liablity to provide any protection to any one individual.