(December 17, 2024 at 4:51 am)Sheldon Wrote:(December 17, 2024 at 1:30 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Right, there are no good guys we read about stopping bad guys. Why? Because those "good guys with guns" are just as scared. They don't carry guns to stop the odd mass-shooting or the occasional armed-robbery of their favorite liquor store.There are also some pretty gruesome stats on the massively increased likelihood of a gun death from suicide, accidental shootings, and even worse of children, in homes where a hand gun is owned.
They carry a gun because it makes them feel better, even though they're afraid to use it.
The obvious response to that argument though, is to ask them why criminals in countries with strict gun laws aren't shooting unarmed good guys in any significant numbers, let alone coming anywhere near the mass shootings and murders in the US.
That's an easy ask. It's because very few countries have raised gun fetishism to the levels seen in the US. We view gun ownership as a privilege, not a right.
Boru
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