11/13: Destroying Pakistani firearms

[MaggieL]

Originally posted by node
So why don't gun owners keep baseball bats instead? .

Because bad guys won't limit themselves to basball bats. Also,. I'd rather go up agianst a bad guy with a gun while packing myself than do the same situation with a baseball bat per each. I don't have to get as close, and it's not a battle of strength.

I'm done with this thread...jag clearly knows little about what he's saying, and hasn't really thought very much about it beyond what he's been told in school, other than to hope the evil guns go away.

People who live in places where the law-abiding people have been disarmed--be it AU or New Joisey--invent some amazing rationalizations about why it's better that way, and sour grapes can go a long way to resolve congitive dissonance. But simplistic reasoning like "if there are few guns then fewer crimes will be comitted with them" ignore all kinds of messy complicated details that go along with living in a real world filled with real people. More shots fired does *not* equal more people dieing, because that "reasoning" glosses over *who* is shooting and why. I've shot 200 rounds in the last ten days, and nobody died as a result.