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The myth of the “good guy with the gun” is most often deployed as a cudgel to distract from the fact that guns in this country are most often not used for self-defense, but for crime, escalating grievances from petty to deadly, and generally providing easy opportunity for people to shoot themselves and their relatives, friends and coworkers either on purpose or, as is tragically frequent, on accident. |
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It's not a myth. It happens far more often than a gun is used to commit a crime... but you only want to count a defensive gun use if someone gets shot. Most of the time, it doesn't come to that.
Yahoo is a cesspool of leftist yahoos these days. There's not even much reason to dignify their inane prattlings with a serious answer. It's a bunch of monkeys throwing stinky things around, except that actual monkeys are smarter and better able to use logic. |
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PP9
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It's not a myth. It happens far more often than a gun is used to commit a crime... but you only want to count a defensive gun use if someone gets shot. Most of the time, it doesn't come to that.
Yahoo is a cesspool of leftist yahoos these days. There's not even much reason to dignify their inane prattlings with a serious answer. It's a bunch of monkeys throwing stinky things around, except that actual monkeys are smarter and better able to use logic. |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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