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Originally posted by Idiot
Guns and other weapons of diliberate violence should only be carried by the armed forces and senior governmont officals.
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But you fail to understand the concept of self-defense, don't come unarmed!
There are some BIG people in this world (like Justin), and quite honestly, most people aren't going to be able to hold him off if he attacked you. Now if you put a gun to his head, you take control, don't ya?
Also, look at situations like Columbine. You think if other kids there carried a gun that all those kids would've died? Hell no. If someone came into my classroom holding a gun they would be the first to fall, plain and simple. At the same time, those kids could've easily taken the kids with their bare hands, but when it's a gun vs. fists, you're at a disadvantage.
What the media doesn't report is all the instances where guns actually save people, and prevent crime. They don't report the thousands of times every year where law-biding citizens who carry guns end up stopping a murder, rape, robbery. If these people didn't have a gun, innocent people would be dead right now.
If you outlaw guns, only criminals and cops will have them. If you want to see how well non-violence works in today's world, go talk to Ghandi. Oh wait, he dead. In the process of preaching non-violence, he got hundreds of his followers killed, and got himself shot. You can take guns away from law-biding citizens, but in the end, all you have is defenseless victims, and overpowering criminals.
I guess you guys must not know, more guns are used to save people, than to kill people.