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Actually criminals have guns so they have power over the people they want to rob steal. It's about power and the assurance that they have more power than the people they want to rob.


Exactly. They know that if they weren't armed then more people like me would be more willing to beat the living crap out of them. Ergo the criminals are scared of actually comitting a violent crime when they have nothing to back up their threats, because there ARE people like me who would take the opportunity and fight back and most likely win.

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If you listen to Galleliao1663, he thinks that the victim should lessen his ability to defend himself, in order for the criminals to lessen his firepower or ability to rob.


Hasn't worked in DC, Britain, Australia, Japan New Zealand, California, New York, Chicago, Wisconsin, or any school in the country. The bad guys are still armed even though the people are wide open and helpless, so apparently that blows his theory to FUCK!

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But I'm pretty sure he wants you redbecca or you ThenameisBill to lessen your ability to defend yourself, but I'm pretty sure he will carry a gun while you remain disarmed. Elitists don't want you to have guns because only they feel they are responsible enough to have them. You may shoot yourself.


Yeah and I might not. And since I've had three years experience of handling loaded guns and passed numerous safety courses, there's next to no chance of that happening.

Next excuse Gilligan!

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Also, take this from somebody who lived in a "gun free city" for six years, meaning Washington DC. By law all the citizens are supposed to be disarmed, and by law they aren't supposed to have weapons. A rifle at most but must stay in house and unasembled, but on the street law-abidng citizens are disarmed period, but do you see the criminals walking around without guns. Nope.


A fact of life, get it through your heads anti-gunners. You're wrong, you've always will be wrong, and you'll continue to be wrong until the day you die, or forever renounce your anti-gun ways and admit publicly that you were WRONG and will never try such a stance again!
"the fundamental principle that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any particular individual citizen." Warren vs. The District of Columbia.