(February 19, 2018 at 10:27 pm)Cecelia Wrote:(February 19, 2018 at 7:56 pm)wallym Wrote: And even that's not how it really works. A random person has a 1/300,000 (assuming your numbers are right). Me, a white guy in a low crime area not doing anything risky probably has a 1 in 50,000,000 chance, or something absurd like that. Averages do not apply to individuals.
Chances your house will never be robbed. Chances are you'll never need a gun for protection. Apparently those chances are enough to dictate that you have an ABSOLUTE right to gun ownership though. Funny how that works. Or rather, how it doesn't work. It's no different from everyone saying "PUT PRAYER IN SCHOOLS!" to protect from school shooters, but never rely on prayer at home.
I have no interest in owning a gun. I'm also an atheist, so I'm not trying to put prayer in school, obviously.
Now if I lived in a dangerous neighborhood, I'd reevaluate my need to own a gun. The balls it would take for me to tell everyone living in a bad neighborhood who is facing real danger that they can't own a gun, because I'm worried about the 1 in 50,000,000 chance my kid might get shot at school is staggering. We can't effectively disarm criminals. People's safety is not guaranteed by the police/government. For the most part, they are on their own, and the best the government can do is send the bad guys to jail after they rob/rape/murder your family.
