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I'm so happy for you that you like your guns so much. You'll hopefully pardon those of us who do *not* subscribe to Mao Tse-tung's philosophy that "power grows from the barrel of a gun." I think I'd rather spend my time and energy making life safer without having to resort to packing heat. [/B]
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Exactly how can you make life safer without anyone having to resort to packing heat?
While this sounds really good and is quite idealistic, the stark truth of man's entire existance is: Might makes right.
The firearm has only been around for a few hundred years, before that it was knives, swords, bows and arrows, clubs and way back when . . . rocks.
The basic concept is the same.
It's not the weapon, it the wielder of that weapon.
A disarmed public is vulnerable to many situations where life will not be safer, from enemies foreign or domestic.