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lusciouslips19 -> RE: britain wants guns back (1/25/2009 8:48:32 AM)
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ORIGINAL: ALAstella
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ORIGINAL: blacksword404
4 men with guns break in and me without my gun is safer for me? How so? I should not have my gun because they might be quicker on the trigger than me?
You might be safer, you might not. The situation has various outcomes and each outcome carries with it a risk. As you've assumed that the 4 men have guns I don't see how you would be any safer with a gun, as you would still be outnumbered.
Let me give you another example here. I live in South London on the fringes of a district called Stockwell, which together with neighbouring Camberwell and Peckham has a dangerous reputation. This is no different I guess from the dangerous neighbourhoods of most US cities. You've got your homies, your hoodies, your gangs, your drug dealers (some of my neighbours deal), your knives and your guns. This is an area apparently (I can't remember where I read the source) which is more dangerous statistically than similar areas in downtown New York. It doesn't matter that much I guess, because we're talking about similar districts which you find in cities in the UK, the US, and all over the world.
But my point here is I can walk out of my apartment any time, night or day, and go about my business, and I don't need to have or own a weapon to protect myself.
I protect myself in other ways. I don't go to certain ATM machines to withdraw cash, I don't flash any cash, flaunt a cellphone, wear expensive jewellery, when I'm out late at night or in a more isolated part of the neighbourhood I keep moving, I stay out of trouble.
Sure, there's always an outside chance I might get attacked, just as there's an outside chance you might get your home burglarized by criminals, but then again I might get caught up in a road traffic accident, I might have a heart attack..
Life is unpredictable. Having a gun doesn't make it any more predictable.
All you say is true and anyone living in an urban area should use common sense. Criminals prey on the weak. So I walk with strength. Of course no one can control everything. I also dont own a gun. I also feel very safe when with Warden who is a responsible gun owner who is the most level headed person I know. He also took me shooting one day at Targets with hand guns. He showed me the safe way to load them hold them and shoot them. I faced these guns with respect and a healthy fear. But I was glad to feel the power of being able to protect myself if I ever had to. The thing is to normal people taking a life would be the worst thing imaginable even if we were protecting ourselves. I would do it to save me or my family. Or a human being. Not my property or anyone else's property. But I would do what I had to. That is something I know for certain. Especially after seeing the Holocaust movie that just came out titled Defiance. What would you do to protect your people, your country and your life? These questions are real to me because even though world war 2 was 70 years ago, it could have been me. There are also hated and persecuted people everywhere ala Bosnia/Croatia and also Darfur. I am not so naive to think that these atrocities could never happen again.
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