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Originally Posted by Sweep28
Maybe you'd have less brawls if thugs got shot every once and awhile. I'll be damned if I'd call that better where you get the shit kicked out of you nearly everywhere you go and have no recourse... People have been killed/crippled in bar fights, that is not cool.
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you support exactly what i am saying.
if you think shooting someone is a decent recourse for getting slapped around in a fight you are a whackjob who shouldnt be allowed to possess a firearm.
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Originally Posted by Sweep28
The problem is the people, not the guns. You can argue guns make it easier to carry out these killings, but as it so happens defensive/good uses of guns farrrrr out number these massacres and such every year, in the US at least. US Department of Justice has listed the legal defensive uses of guns by citizens at over 1.5 million per year...
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what are these good defensive use of guns?
from what i understand the major justification for owning a gun is so you can shoot and kill trespassers on your property. is that what we are talking about ? the number of people who got shot for trying to steal a VCR ?