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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
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I'm sorry, but to be quite frank, that is some stupid logic. I mean, why have nuclear weapons? Same question pretty much.
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We're talking about guns, one person agains another person, each seeing each other. Not about weapons of mass dstruction.
So, if you don't mind, answer my question. Properly, please. |
I did. Why have armies? Why have any sort of defense? I see nothing different. I did answer your question because there is no difference. The analogy is identical.
The key word is deterrence. ANother is response. More come to mind. |
There is a serious mistake in your considerations. Armies and weapons of mass destructions result in fear, which itselfs may result in backing down (look at the US and North Korea). But this is not the case with guns, is the exact opposite. Your owning of a gun does NOT (repeat: does NOT) deter criminals of commiting crimes against you. It just increases the chance that you become not just a victim of robbery, but of murder.
Neither one nor a hundred armed students at Virginia Tech would have deterred that madman from his killing rampage.
The only 'response' you can make this way is setting an exclamation point that will just further provoke others .