1) Guns are a form of protection.
Shields, armour and helmets protect you. Guns shoot toxic pieces of lead into other people.
2) Guns are a form of self-defence.
They can be, sure. However, statistically speaking, more guns are used in crimes than are used in self-defence.
A study of gun use in the 1990s, by David Hemenway at the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, found that criminal use of guns is far more common than self-defense use of guns.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States
Obviously, potential criminals are going to purchase guns if they are legal. Therefore, you make a useless trade: increased personal protection for increased need for it. The only logical outcome of that trade is more people will die.
3) I don't trust the government.
If the government wants to get you, then your Dirty Harry handgun is not going to stop them. End of story.
4) A 100 lb woman shouldn't have to struggle with a 300 lb rapist.
But you can't arm the victim without simultaneously arming the rapist. So, instead of a rape occurring, which is consequently then investigated by the people whose job it is to investigate rapes, you have a bloodbath. Maybe the rapist gets killed, maybe the victim gets killed, maybe they both get killed, or maybe innocent bystanders get killed.
There are alternative ways to deal with rapists which are final, much safer, and do not end in loss of life.
5) Guns don't kill people. People kill people.
Then it is a stupid idea to give them guns then, isn't it? Unless you are trying to make fucking sure.
Any thoughts?
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DillHoleBagHands ago
@adsnell2004, sorry I am late.
@donarty, Stay on Reddit. We left because assholes like you made Reddit as shithole for libtard ideals like yours.
Conceal Carry permits save lives on a daily basis whether you like it or not. Armor and shields do not. Sure you can say that they save politician or soldiers lives, but they are not the majority of the public. Today's body armor is still useless against high powered weaponry or even knives.
Sourcing a libtard organization for you "evidence" does not make your wild accusations true. Criminals are not going to get guns legally. They will rob and steal them from legal citizens. Gun violence declines by number of guns per citizens. Just look at other countries, ie. Switzerland.
So by un-arming yourself, you expect us to believe that you trust the government more? Have you ever seen the movie, Red Dawn. Guerilla warfare, asshole. Vietnam war, Korean war ring a bell. Resistance by guerilla warfare tactics can draw out a war indefinitely.
U wot m8? This is the flimsiest excuse I have ever heard. So instead of stopping/injurying/killing the rapist, you are suggesting the rapist continues on his path and rapes a woman. "There are alternative ways to deal with rapists which are final, much safer, and do not end in loss of life." There comes a point in life where you need to buck up and realize that life is not a bunch of sunshine and rainbows. You cannot talk down rapists. For instance, try talking down an "African migrant"/rapefugee. They will either not understand a single fucking thing you are saying, scream "Allahu Akhbar" continuing his warpath, or kill you for being an infidel. 99.9999999999% of the time, rapists do not give a flying fuck.
No fucking shit people kill people. By removing guns, all you are doing is increasing the likelihood that the murders by other means, knives, cars, or any other "destructive device", will increase dramatically. "...trying to make fucking sure." You mean like beheading with an axe or like the rapefugees I mentioned earlier, slit their throats.
Now step up your game, or get the fly fuck out.
One last thing.