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Quote by: Halofan48  Of course not. But they would likely become a lot harder. Like, lets say your married. One day, you come home, and you find your spouse in bed with another. In a fit of rage, you end up shooting them both. Now take the gun out of the picture. It's a lot harder to kill someone with a knife then a gun. A gun, you can't really fight back against,but a knife you can. So yes, they wouldn't stop completely, but the number of deaths caused by them would likely decrease. |
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Quote by: Tycoon Uuum, excuse me, but yes, they have shown a propensity to steal belongings. Just at my little isolated school a DVD player was stolen last week. |
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Quote by: Halofan48 Yep, happens at my school all the time. One time someone tried to take a teachers laptop  he got caught right as he was leaving school grounds. I've seen teachers have phones stolen, wallets taken, heck, even a projector. It happens. |
Hi. I'm elementary logic. Have we met? You both need to go out there on teh interwebs and google some good studies of logic so you can learn that anecdotes =/= evidence.
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Quote by: Tycoon Hmm, on the contrary...
If everybody can carry around guns then the only thing stopping somebody from shooting you is if you carry a gun as well. What I am saying is that you would have to carry a gun or be shot. |
What you are saying is nonsense. There is a concept in the law that there's no way to write a contract to prevent a
dishonest man from screwing you, because a dishonest man won't honor the contract no matter what it says.
If "everyone" can carry guns the "only" thing stopping someone from shooting you will be the exact same things that stop people from shooting you now - laws against shooting someone, the social contract, civilization, etc.
Here's your logic: Right now, the only thing stopping someone from running you down with their car is that you're in a car, too. Therefore, as long as there are pedestrians anywhere, cars should be outlawed.
Absurd.