It did.HotFezz8 said:hope this helped some more. again sorry for snapping earlier.
And you are forgiven. ^_^
It did.HotFezz8 said:hope this helped some more. again sorry for snapping earlier.
I see what you mean. I dunno. Its just i have a good amount of experience of bad areas, (my girlfriend lives in a REALLY REALLY shit area as in the site of many murders and muggings) im scared shit less by these scum as it is in terms of the horrific animal behavior they are willing to exhibit. I just don't like the idea of granting them more power. The police? I guess they could have guns. But then there is fairness of arming the people too to allow policing by consent. I dunno, just don't like the idea of people this brutal and stupid possessing fire arms legally. Id get one right away if they were legal. Thing is right now im probably better armed than most thugs (most, there was a shooting in the aforementioned area) if guns were available that's far less likely.Xanthious said:You are under the assumption that allowing people to arm themselves in the name of self defense automatically means everyone in the country will run out to do so. I can tell you that is not the case in the least. Even though it's perfectly legal in the state I live in to carry a concealed and loaded firearm with you damn near anywhere the vast VAST majority of people don't. Out of the entire massive group that encircles my co-workers family and friends I know a grand total of one other person who owns a pistol, and he doesn't carry it he keeps it locked up in his home.BiscuitTrouser said:This logic is so nice until you realize that if the 1000's of people breaking and burning down houses with people inside them would all have guns as well.. it would be a shit storm. The capitol would LITERALLY BE A WARZONE. Firefights and shoot outs. it would be fucking Baghdad in there. Terrible idea to arm EVERYONE. Imagine these crazed animals with guns? I would predict HUNDREDS of deaths. THOUSANDS even if random firing just started happening all along the street.
Also FYI far more rioters than police. The rioters have NO way to harm police properly (throwing stuff i guess) as long as they retain formation and hold ground as a unit, even if heavily outnumbered. Guns takes this advantage away. The police would be annihilated. I have a hunting bow, a katana , and a kukri. I will fuck anyone who attempts to loot my house. I dont need a gun. Im pretty damn far from the rioting as it is. We can still defend ourselves. Giving guns to EVERYONE INCLUDING THE RIOTERS is a shit shit shit shit shit idea. I hate these people. The last thing i want is for the to legally be able to arm themselves.
Furthermore, from what I've seen a lot of the rioters are younger folks or poor folks these aren't the types of people who would be likely to be able to qualify for or be able to afford a gun even if they were given the option.
Despite their amazing lack of good judgement so far I honestly doubt that many of the rioters would think for a second that getting into a firefight with the British police is anything that resembles a good idea. Every time we've had riots in the states it rarely, if ever, breaks out into firefights. Rioters aren't out there looking to go down in a hail of gunfire they are out there to cause some trouble and maybe score some free shit. The second they would be dumb enough to introduce a firearm into the equation they are essentially agreeing to make their life forfeit.
In the end it absolutely baffles me to see people on here so terribly sheepish about law abiding citizens being allowed to defend their lives and their belongings. Criminals are going to get guns if they need them I promise you that. By denying guns to the masses you are only denying them to the law abiding citizens who would be very unlikely to ever do anything with them to cause trouble. As I said before, I've carried a pistol nearly every day for over a decade now and I've yet to have to pull it self defense thankfully. The bottom line is, to borrow a quote from the movie Shane, "A gun is a tool, no better or no worse than any other tool: an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it."