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Originally Posted by Caruban
What I don't understand is why you would ever -need- the right to carry a gun wherever you want. Why do you need a gun in your home, why do you need a gun strapped to your belt when you go to the store? Why do you need a gun anywhere other than the gun range or out hunting? The answer is hopefully because you don't feel safe. Any other reason for bearing arms is completely invalid, and if you don't feel safe in your own community THEN SOMETHING IS WRONG AND NEEDS TO BE FIXED.
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It never will be fixed. It might be minimized by having a society that went back to enforcing individual liberty, private property and personal space as well as having some morality and judgmentalism about right and wrong.
It's true that here in the USA that guns end up involved with murder and suicide. However it is usually criminal on criminal and in many cases ownership of guns acts as deterrent to commit crime or stops the crime in progress. Around where I live in PA, home breakins and business holdups are very uncommon because around here most people have a gun, so your criminal career will not last for long before getting plugged and you die of lead poisoning.
If you look at crime rates, Europe is way more violent and criminal overall. Anecdotal evidence from the many Europeans I know all say how much safer the USA is and how much theft, burglary and assault they undergo. All of my british friends have all endured multiple house robberies and car thefts as well as vandalism. Crime runs rampant in Europe because crims don't get locked up for long and there is no risk of people defending themselves.
I also watch a lot of European reality cop shows and the cops have their hands tied and criminals know it. There are few consequences for criminals in Europe.
If you look at problem crime areas in the USA, they are all in the most restrictive places with gun laws. Chicago is a great example of the failures of gun control.
I own guns because not only are they a way of obtaining protein and fat if it comes to that, but also for target shooting and defense. I don't live in utopia nor in government protected paradise. Instead I have chosen to take personal responsibility to defend my own space and not have to rely on government to be there when life goes bad.