jms wrote: i’d rather neither of us have guns, because then i DEFINTIELY won’t get shot.
jms, the fact of the matter is that the bad guys don’t care what you’d rather have. They have weapons, and they use their weapons, so your preference doesn’t really enter into it.
Now, since your ideal world where nobody has a firearm is never going to exist, perhaps you should spend some time reflecting on your alternatives in the real world: he has a weapon and you don’t, or he has a weapon and you do.
I understand that firearms make a lot of people very uncomfortable, because they are dangerous. If people don’t want to carry arms in order to protect themselves and their neighbors, that’s fine with me. I just don’t want their discomfort used to force the rest of the world to be as defenseless as they choose to be.
