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Originally Posted by Ostfriese
You don't seem to WANT to understand. Owning a gun will NOT prevent you from facing the wrong end of a gun in some others persons hand. You'll be just as helpless as you would be without a gun. In fact, it does even increase your chance of becoming a victim - because someone who's after you won't come unprepared. And even if you are lucky and manage to shoot down the other guy you'll be knee deep in s**t. Laws are not only for the bad guys.
For the rest of your words I answer with a question. Which man is smarter? The one who prepares for a bad situation in such a way that any outcome will be bad - or the one who knows how to prevent coming into such a situation?
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I understand now. What I now understand is that 'you' do not understand the US law system is what you just told me. An example is the man in Seattle a couple months back, who for no reason beat on another man, in which that man pulled out his gun and shot the man that was trying to kill him. The man had a valid CPP, and no charges were ever filed. It didn't even make front page news. No one cared because the man killed was whacked, and the other was simply defending himself. So, you are saying this is not OK? Should the first man have rolled over and died because he should not take action? Maybe in your country, you have to roll over and die, but to me, that is a sick mans mentallity. One who is not even a man, but a child. Sheep.
Me, yes, maybe I won't have a chance to get to a firearm to defend myself, but at least I have an option. This is something you do not have. The mentallity you describe to me says its OK to let the man who would do you harm live, and the good man die. To do the opposite is just not OK. Why? Can you truely answer that question? I don't think you can, but that is what you describe as the right way to do things.
Iff the Seattle man had been on that campus armed, no one or only a few students would have died that day. Instead, we gave over 30 lives, and a ton more wounded simply because no other firearms were present. That just doesn't make sense to me.
-S