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Quote by: Tycoon  If this is the case then what is the need to carry a gun? According to you you won't be shot because it's against the law. You pretty much just invalidated your only reason for carrying a gun in public. |
No, you're not getting it, like most anti-gun people.
Your argument, plainly ridiculous, is that mere possession of a gun or dispossession of a gun is the sole factor that makes someone commit gun crimes.
What I am saying is that gun possession has nothing to do with someone's propensity to commit crime. If everyone carried a gun, criminals would still be criminals and law-abiding citizens would still be such. The only thing that would change is that law-abiding citizens would now have the means to protect themselves from the criminals.
What we have now is a situation where in many places, carrying a gun is illegal. Criminals do not care that it is illegal and carry one anyway. Law-abiding citizens follow the law and do not carry one in those places. So, criminals are the only ones armed.
Legal possession and display of a firearm does not make someone any more likely to submit to criminal propensities than legal ownership of a car makes you a drunk driver. Get it?