If everyone was allowed to carry a gun anywhere they go, do you think
think crime would go up or down?
President
Guns for everyone?
If everyone was allowed to carry a gun anywhere they go, do you think
think crime would go up or down?
"You counted on America to be passive... You counted Wrong!"
Try to remember what about any western movie is about. You'll get the answer yourself.
Why simply guns and not shotguns, machine guns, grenades, C4 or rocket launchers? How about letting ppl ride tanks instead of cars. Or even have nukes at home. The principle is the same, so do you still think that would work?
First Lieutenant
SIMPLE. an armed society is a polite society. the movies about the "wild west" are just dramatizations. period. mostly based on the old dime store novel writers trying to make it more interesting for readers and people to move out west.
There is no greater sin than apathy
Corporal
...and ppl in a society without or limited access to guns can't be polite?Originally Posted by ranger2112
First Lieutenant
yes, they can. however, when u do not allow free Americans to carry their weapons, then the only armed people will be criminals. just a fact. if i want to break into a home, i will think less of it in an area that allows handgun ownership than one that does not.
There is no greater sin than apathy
President
The only truth to a western movie is how lonely a life the cowboy actually
lead.
think about it, with all the real time TV shows now, how interesting would
it be if a camera crew followed around a cowboy back in those days?
they added all the gunfights so people would watch the show..
"You counted on America to be passive... You counted Wrong!"
First Lieutenant
exactly.
There is no greater sin than apathy
Corporal
The need to be armed is clearly context dependent. Had I been born with the right to US citizenship, then I might have bought some myself...who knows. I don't think I would consider myself "a free man", if I needed a Browning to obtain a sense of security in my own home/country. However, if the alternative is chronic paranoia because everybody else are armed, then it becomes a question of choosing the lesser evil, which in this case would be to get armed asap.
Imo the paradox can only be resolved by reducing crime, which in turn is a matter of reducing social problems.
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