thing is hust. i dont care about the availability of guns. im much more interested in the psychology behind ur logic. theres no evidence of you being more safe with a gun in ur hand than without - at least i havent seen a scientifical evidence. this mentality: that you need to buy a gun to stay safe is a sense of false security and has its roots in ur feelings and instead of being based on a rational process.
my concern is that ur logic keeps merica from gettin to the root of its problems: poverty, social heritage, lack of treatment for mental ill and so on.
this idea of innocent people being gun'd down every other moment is a construction that limits merica and is of no help to you, but deluding you to keep calm.
Not one thing you say highlights how to solve the problems you mentioned and that I agree with you need addressed.
Not one thing you said tells me that bad guys won't hurt innocent people. You have never lived here, you probably have gotten into some school recess scuffles but until you get held at knife point or are out numbered by guys intentionally going to do you harm even when they get your wallet and keys, whats left for the good guy? Hope I guess is what you think will make me safe in that situation.
Scientific evidence doesn't support your case either. Switzerland is loaded with guns and they are doing just fine, but thats because they address the social issues that we aren't doing here. You address those, and allow good people to defend themselves with something other than hope then you will see a culture shift.
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Bad guys will always have access to guns. Bad guys will always use them to get what they want because they have no value for human life. Scientific evidence or not, that's a fact. It happens whether gun/drugs/jaws of life are limited/regulated/banned...doesn't matter.