As I have been reading through this thread I find a few things interesting.
First of all, I've never quite understood the mentality of "Why would you ever need to carry a gun"?
The reason I've never understood this mindset is simply because it is logically flawed. In the course of your average person's life they at some point become a victim of a crime. Be it a mugging, theft, assault, or in the more violent cases, rape and murder. You as a citizen have no right to police protection, and in it's design isn't supposed to "protect" you. It's main purpose is to bring criminals (meaning someone has become a victim by their crime) to justice. What right you do have as a citizen of the US is the right to bear arms, which gives you the ability to protect yourself, levels the playing field. Bringing you to the level that criminals already play at. Giving you that fighting chance to not become an assault, mugging, rape, or murder victim.
However, as a few of you have so deftly chimed in, human life is more important than a router or any other inanimate object.
I whole-heartedly agree! My life, the lives of my family, the lives of my children, the lives of my friends, and the lives of my co-workers are more important. And so I chose to carry a firearm to protect myself and those people from being endangered by somebody looking for easy money or a victim.
Now while some of you are of the impression that guns are bad and the tool of bad guys, that not having guns would solve the country's problem of violence and crime. I would have to say that that too is logically flawed.
Because criminals do not for the most part obtain firearms through legal means. Often times they are bought and purchased illegally, used illegally, and so aren't really affected by gun control. The person who is effected by gun control are people like myself, and well over half of the rest of the United States who own firearms for their own protection. Gun control does nothing, but for the most part disarms the average person.
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As I have been reading through this thread I find a few things interesting.
First of all, I've never quite understood the mentality of "Why would you ever need to carry a gun"?
The reason I've never understood this mindset is simply because it is logically flawed. In the course of your average person's life they at some point become a victim of a crime. Be it a mugging, theft, assault, or in the more violent cases, rape and murder. You as a citizen have no right to police protection, and in it's design isn't supposed to "protect" you. It's main purpose is to bring criminals (meaning someone has become a victim by their crime) to justice. What right you do have as a citizen of the US is the right to bear arms, which gives you the ability to protect yourself, levels the playing field. Bringing you to the level that criminals already play at. Giving you that fighting chance to not become an assault, mugging, rape, or murder victim.
However, as a few of you have so deftly chimed in, human life is more important than a router or any other inanimate object.
I whole-heartedly agree! My life, the lives of my family, the lives of my children, the lives of my friends, and the lives of my co-workers are more important. And so I chose to carry a firearm to protect myself and those people from being endangered by somebody looking for easy money or a victim.
Now while some of you are of the impression that guns are bad and the tool of bad guys, that not having guns would solve the country's problem of violence and crime. I would have to say that that too is logically flawed.
Because criminals do not for the most part obtain firearms through legal means. Often times they are bought and purchased illegally, used illegally, and so aren't really affected by gun control. The person who is effected by gun control are people like myself, and well over half of the rest of the United States who own firearms for their own protection. Gun control does nothing, but for the most part disarms the average person.