Posted by: rethink April 9, 2013
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"inflicting damage is not necessarily a bad thing, especially when the damage is inflicted on a bad person."
That is the kind of attitude from a gun totting individual that puts everyone at risk. The gun holder gets to decide who is the bad person. Who is bad person is a very relative term, yet the gun holder gets to end the life of who he deems is bad at an instant of power play. Who is bad, a poor kid who steals a chewing gum from a grocery store? A black man who is walking with hood and just because he is black, others deem him a potential risk so they shoot him for defense from potential crime?
This is exactly the reason why it is dangerous to get guns in the hands of civilians.
The weapons of mass destruction were brought into the argument just to show you that according to your definition every weapon is for defense, and not for offense. So let me ask you something. What is an offensive weapon in your opinion? or does that not even exist?
The point is that these weapons get used erratically at the whim of the owners and innocent people die. That could be prevented by preventing civilians from owning guns. Even the atom bomb was used erratically killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people. You cannot justify such killings without justifying genocide, which I hope you don't.
As far as gun control. Any good practice can start now and then we can look forward to a better future. Just because HIV was incurable, if people stopped looking for a cure, the there would be no hope for the future generations or the ones affected. You can always start at a point and move on from there. Laws can always be made asking civilians to return guns in possession and levy huge fines if anyone is caught with it. I mean it is not as far fetched as Cyprus government taking money from common citizen's account because that's what they needed to do.
I don't own a gun because I am not afraid that someone is going to come after me and I will need to shoot them. I learn to co-exist with society and have positive experience with everyone in general so there is no need to make a pre-emptive strike on the sanity of those that come into my contact by needing to carry a weapon for protection. However, if you are a first class ass hole then you should probably be carrying a gun because others will be coming after yo ass.
That is the kind of attitude from a gun totting individual that puts everyone at risk. The gun holder gets to decide who is the bad person. Who is bad person is a very relative term, yet the gun holder gets to end the life of who he deems is bad at an instant of power play. Who is bad, a poor kid who steals a chewing gum from a grocery store? A black man who is walking with hood and just because he is black, others deem him a potential risk so they shoot him for defense from potential crime?
This is exactly the reason why it is dangerous to get guns in the hands of civilians.
The weapons of mass destruction were brought into the argument just to show you that according to your definition every weapon is for defense, and not for offense. So let me ask you something. What is an offensive weapon in your opinion? or does that not even exist?
The point is that these weapons get used erratically at the whim of the owners and innocent people die. That could be prevented by preventing civilians from owning guns. Even the atom bomb was used erratically killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people. You cannot justify such killings without justifying genocide, which I hope you don't.
As far as gun control. Any good practice can start now and then we can look forward to a better future. Just because HIV was incurable, if people stopped looking for a cure, the there would be no hope for the future generations or the ones affected. You can always start at a point and move on from there. Laws can always be made asking civilians to return guns in possession and levy huge fines if anyone is caught with it. I mean it is not as far fetched as Cyprus government taking money from common citizen's account because that's what they needed to do.
I don't own a gun because I am not afraid that someone is going to come after me and I will need to shoot them. I learn to co-exist with society and have positive experience with everyone in general so there is no need to make a pre-emptive strike on the sanity of those that come into my contact by needing to carry a weapon for protection. However, if you are a first class ass hole then you should probably be carrying a gun because others will be coming after yo ass.