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Posted by WillD on Tue Oct 3 15:05:50 2006, in response to Re: Who the hell shoots up an Amish school!?, posted by BIE on Mon Oct 2 23:33:41 2006. Why is gun permitting wrong? If you have your gun, and, by some bizarre chance, are actually involved in highly optimistic shoot-out scenario with a robber, mugger, or other neer-do-well (where you manage to shoot the perpetrator, not shoot bystanders, and avoid being shot or at least disarmed, which has to be somewhere close to a 1 in 1 billion chance of occuring) which the NRA and its hangers-on are constantly harping then wouldn't you rather have your gun licensed and have the fact that you are licensed to carry that gun on record? If we accept the NRA's [flawwed] premise that criminals only commit illegal acts with illegal guns then it's unlikely that the perpetrator's gun is licensed, so even if you've killed him your claim of acting in self defense would have some merit without having to have a witness corroborate the claim.It's too bad we can't have completely separate gun licensing laws for urban and rural areas. In rural areas of course there's a justification for having a gun since it concievably can be used as a tool for obtaining food or scaring off or killing predators. In urban areas it's still a tool, but given the lack of four legged animals it is only a tool for killing other humans, whether they be predatory or otherwise. If urban police departments didn't have to worry about the thousands of legal, yet useless and likely dangerous guns the possibility that they'd have better success in capturing real criminals is quite great. |
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