Such a David vs Goliath situation with the equalizer being guns, right?
Not law, injuctions, procedures, intelligence or anything resemble civilized behaviour? Your answer is MUST OWN GUNS NOW MUH FREEDOMS ARE IN DANGER GIVE ME AR 15?
You guys are drinking from the same glowie fountain this kid drank at, do you realize?
The ability to kill and be killed, and the desire not to be killed or kill is what created the necessity to be civil.
There are some among us, who do not care about
>the law
>injunctions
>procedures
>intelligence
>civilized behavior.
Some of these people run governments.
Some of these people are in gangs.
Some of these people are just broke and stupid.
So your solution to this entire situation is to take away a little old lady, a middle aged man, or a twenty something female's ability to defend herself with a weapon that could defend against such people?
Who exactly are you trying to convince here? People who live in comfortable, well off areas that have private security teams, people in suburban neighborhoods whose neighbors won't run to help them if their house is invaded? Rural farmers who have no one around them to come to their defense? or people who hear sirens outside their windows almost nightly because they live in bad areas?
If anything is true, it is the notion that anyone and everyone around you could shoot back at you that is the deterrence. If someone is still willing to go up against a polite society of armed people and commit violent crimes they
clearly have no respect for anything, anyone, or any law. These people have always existed, and there will always be people trying to stop law abiding citizens from having arms of their own
for the stated notion that it is for their own safety when that has never been the case.