Weakness is relative, so there is no equaliser. — Echarmion
One of the tasks of living together is making sure that whoever has a physical advantage in any given situation cannot abuse that advantage.
Guns have no special standing here, they're just another factor to consider.
Ah yes, the old “equalizer” mythology. How quaint.
Must be fun living in the Wild West. What imagination. — Mikie
Sure there is. If I'm an elderly man, I'm weaker than a young burglar breaking into my home. However, if I have a gun, the playing field becomes much more level. — RogueAI
But people do abuse the physical advantage they have over others, and the police can take awhile to show up. — RogueAI
They don't have a special standing, but they do make it possible to defend my house very efficiently. — RogueAI
There are over 300 million guns in the U.S. It's ridiculously easy for criminals to get their hands on one. Until that changes, I'm also going to have a gun, and I'm going to support other law-abiding citizens' rights to own guns. — RogueAI
Also I don't feel that mass shootings it is a mainly a gun issue, if you have someone who wants to create panic it will switch from guns to something else. So it is a better way to combat mass shootings by understanding the signs and stopping it before it happens rather than taking peoples ability to defend themselves. — Lexa
And are you saying that because the bad guy will find some way to be bad, that he should have a gun anyway? — tim wood
he other the assumption that people or a person, having a gun constitutes the ability to defend. — tim wood
If having it is the sole criterion and it's robbery, and depending on what you mean by "defend themselves," I'd say the fellow without the gun.If you and me get robbed, and I have a gun and you don't, who is in a better position to defend themselves? — Lexa
Mass shootings involving AR-15s have become a recurring American nightmare.
The weapon, easy to operate and widely available, is now used more than any other in the country’s deadliest mass killings.
Fired by the dozens or hundreds in rapid succession, bullets from AR-15s have blasted through classroom doors and walls. They have shredded theater seats and splintered wooden church pews. They have mangled human bodies and, in a matter of seconds, shattered the lives of people attending a concert, shopping on a Saturday afternoon, going out with friends and family, working in their offices and worshiping at church and synagogue. They have killed first-graders, teenagers, mothers, fathers and grandparents. — Washington Post
After all people smuggle millions of drugs into this country everyday so I don't see how it will be different with guns. — Lexa
It’s not the guns. There are more guns in the US today than ever before yet crime and murder are the lowest they’ve been since their peak in the 1990s. — Captain Homicide
I'll bet that every cause-of-death report for every person ever killed by being shot reads that he or she was killed by gunfire - however that's expressed in such reports. For you to say, "It's not the guns," is disgusting. As it sits, you are at the absolute best - at very best - merely contemptible. It might be educational for you to lose a loved one to a gun and have someone say to you, "it wasn't the gun." Nothing to wish on anyone, but just think about it, if you can.It’s not the guns. — Captain Homicide
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