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So you have a series of red herrings…. I never suggested that a person not prepare for an attack. [b]My point is that I don’t want to live in the kind of society where the social contract is based on vigilante threats of violent death.[/b] I want trained and vetted members of our community to have that kind of power and responsibility rather than any random citizen.

You gun nuts are living in a fantasy world where a handgun is the answer to any problem. If a criminal thinks you have a gun and he wants to hurt you he will just chop you with his machete from behind before you can react. All a gun accomplishes is a general escalation of violence in response or in anticipation along with innocent bystanders getting shot. Just imagine the number of well trained and heavily armed professionals that refused to do anything in Uvalde![/quote]

That's the thing, right? I had a friend who was a gun nut. She would explain how, whenever she goes anywhere, she scans the area for places where attackers could attack from, escape routes, and so on. She wanted to be able to carry a gun everywhere at all times to protect herself from the potential threats that could come upon her anywhere at any time, and was angry that the state would not allow her to do so. At the time, I wondered why she seemed to believe she was living in a war zone (in rural Illinois!), and whom she wanted to protect herself from. Now, with constant mass shootings anywhere and everywhere - schools, malls, churches, movie theaters, parades, banks, hospitals, concerts, grocery stores, etc. etc. etc. - the answer is clear to me: she wanted to protect herself from other people with guns. The answer is also clear that her gun would not have protected her or anybody else at any of those mass shootings that now make all of us feel like we're living in a war zone.[/quote]

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