Trying to Stop being Clever

If it’s expected that everyone (or most everyone) has a gun, then you increase the chances of the criminals having guns to nearly 100%. Criminals are going to do what they do, whether it involves shooting people, or gassing people, or blowing people up, or whatever it takes to do “their job.” Like it or not, crime is what some people do for a living. They will find a way. If everyone has a gun, a criminal will plan their job with the intention of killing as many people as necessary. By carrying a gun, you are making yourself a target to criminals. If someone walks into a convenience store to rob it, and that person has a gun, and he knows that a high percentage of other people in the store will also have guns, he is likely to kill more people than he otherwise might. Rather than discourage criminals, I think it will encourage them to be more ready to shoot. Same thing goes for police. If they believe that most people have guns, they will be more anxious to shoot anyone they fe

"If you bother me I'll kill you." The gun rights activists' attitude. Like we would have toward an insect. That's how they see democrats, children, criminals, anyone they disagree with. "If you don't reason with me (give in to my viewpoint) quickly enough I reserve the right to end your life." People are not insects, and should not be treated as such.

Mike Watkins, a cop–turned–firearm instructor at the Kennesaw range, put it this way: “If I'm a bad guy, and I know this place has guns, it's not a place I'm obviously going to want to go and do something bad.”  Source:  Scientific American Question 1.: how can a cop say what a 'bad guy' thinks? He is so on the other end of the spectrum from that, thinking he's fully righteous and justified. Question 2.: what about the suicidal mass-shooter types who usually end up dead, often by their own bullet? Question 3.: how can you automatically discern who the "bad guy" is to make sure you shoot the "right" person? Question 4.: why do so many Americans want a fatal solution to situations they don't like? If you're unhappy then somebody needs to die? Question 5.: how many of you, as individuals, have ever used a gun for self-defense? I don't mean the intimidation factor of a gun; intimidation can be caused by many things. Fatal f