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Notice that there's also nobody screaming against putting up bollards to protect pedestrian spaces.
Yeah you keep supporting that.
Yeah tell that to police departments and governments.
Human beings tend to be really bad at estimating the level of risk for low-likelihood, high-severity risks.
They carry these weapons in order to inflict deadly force on human beings.
Like hell there isnt.
For no other reason there are human beings out there who would be willing to inflict deadly force on me. Yeah people like that exist, it's not like Yeti and Bigfoot sightings or anything. They're really out there somewhere.
And would you rather those people had guns or knives?
By that reasoning, should I have the right to stockpile grenades, landmines and nerve agents?
That's your own projection. I'm not advocating a total prohibition on all firearms; just on the ones that make it easy for lone wolves to mow down crowds.
I see your arguments as desperate. If you were to accept that easy access to high powered semi-automatic weapons and the frequency of mass shootings are correlated, but that such shootings are an acceptable price to pay for such access then at least you would have a coherent (if obnoxious) position. And to be honest, I think that is the real position of gun advocates such as yourself.
So... in a situation where you would want to use deadly force against an attacker, a knife would be just as good to you as a gun?
Guns can run out of ammo. Knives don't. It's not really a factor in face of someone who's just going to try to kill you anyways.
So you do think that guns increase a person's ability to kill?
That would depend entirely upon the situation and the environment.
So then you have a different position from that of @We Never Know , so your replies won't help me in what I'm trying to do: understand @We Never Know 's position.
It might be worth mentioning that pretty much all the mass shootings we read and hear about incorporate the element of surprise to which there really isn't much of a defense no matter whats being used. It's not difficult to see how the multiple casualties come to be what they are because of the element of surprise.
No. it's not the isolated incident but the ongoing slaughter unique to the USA. The following is just one example of the "everyone should have a loaded gun" worship. And given the ever rising tide of white nationalist terrorists the problem will get worse.
Are you serious? You're going to ignore the simple, blatant and obvious facts that guns are more deadly than knives by saying "knives don't need ammo"? Think about this argument for two minutes and try to tell me you see no flaw in it.
Absolutely, it is. You are statistically far more likely to survive a knife attack than a gun attack. And if you seriously want to argue that a gun is just as good at killing as a knife is... Why do you need guns for self-defence? Why not just have knives?
Which is a lot more likely to happen if they don't have immediate access to a device that can kill you with the pull of a trigger.
