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Originally Posted by Sheriff Gonna Getcha
The gun rights advocates seem to talk a lot about the "bad guys" and the need to protect themselves. If anything, it sounds like the gun rights advocates use fear to justify their beliefs.
And I don't agree that limiting access to guns is a assbackward way of fixing "the problem." Punishment reacts to the problem, it doesn't prevent it.
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Well people believe that they should have the right to owen a gun to protect themself. Who else are they protecting themself from if its not the bad guy? With all the crime that goes on how could you say they use fear when all you have to do is open up the news paper or watch the news on any given day. The threat is there, now the chance of that threat could be debated but not the threat itself. I have had two friends defend themself with a gun. One was home sick when two guys broke into his home and one was armed with a bat and the other with a knife. They came at him until they realised he had a gun. Another friend had his gun with him and while sitting in his car looking up an address he had three guys try to enter his car and threatend him with harm if he did not unlock his door. He pulled out his gun and they took off. Did guns save either one of these guys life? Who knows. but it sure turnd what could have been bad situation into a happy ending. In the first case the guy did shoot one of the intruders in the leg put they still fled and they never found the guys.