Do events like the one today in Paris make you more in favor of gun ownership? (country, safe)
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Just because you own a gun does not mean you can deffend yourself or others when an event such as the one from today happpens. Training in a shooting range and actually shooting a human being to deffend yourself are very different things.
If you are facing an armed fanatic (religious or otherwise) or a mentally deranged person the fact that you own or not a gun will make very little difference in your chance of survival.
As a teenager I trained and competed in shooting events, spent years in the shooting range, later was in the military forces. I can say I am quite familiar with a variety of weapons and have higher than average marksmanship skills. I am always surprised to hear how confident some people who never in their life were in live fire that if they had a gun they can manage to neutralize an aggressor.
Just because you own a gun does not mean you can deffend yourself or others when an event such as the one from today happpens. Training in a shooting range and actually shooting a human being to deffend yourself are very different things.
If you are facing an armed fanatic (religious or otherwise) or a mentally deranged person the fact that you own or not a gun will make very little difference in your chance of survival.
Nope, it sure doesn't guarantee anything. But it may increase your odds.
The main problem with guns is that they tend to create more problems than they solve. Imagine all those everyday incidents where you have accidently dropped your cellphone and replace that with a loaded weapon. Given I was a journalist under threat, chances are I would have killed myself by accident long before the terrorists got to me. Arming ordinary people with guns would be a disaster for security. I just read about a 2-year old killing the mother in America. The more armed people, the more deaths and injuries.
The main problem with guns is that they tend to create more problems than they solve. Imagine all those everyday incidents where you have accidently dropped your cellphone and replace that with a loaded weapon. Given I was a journalist under threat, chances are I would have killed myself by accident long before the terrorists got to me. Arming ordinary people with guns would be a disaster for security. I just read about a 2-year old killing the mother in America. The more armed people, the more deaths and injuries.
I think the main problem with guns is that people tend to make up statistics and assert their opinions more than they're actually interested in learning about them.
If a crazy man is about to shoot me i would most likely have no time to pull out my gun, load it, switch the safety off and shoot him (while going through all the adrenaline).
What is sickening is the prejudice and dividing fellow humans over their religion.
I think the main problem with guns is that people tend to make up statistics and assert their opinions more than they're actually interested in learning about them.
So, you propose to arm an entire nation because there was one incident that cost 12 lives?
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