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Originally Posted by Stanaccy
So hundreds of innocents die because nutters can get guns so you can keep a gun IN CASE someone attacks you?
Yes the strength of your argument is overwhelming  . |
I keep my gun to protect myself from the nutters. The nutters generally have acquired guns illegally. Legislation to control who owns a gun is extensive. Except nutters and criminals simply don't bother.
I live 2 miles from Mexico. On the offramp from my freeway there is the follwing sign.
http://www.spraguephoto.com/stock/im...co/05mx066.jpg
I wouldn't cross the border right now for fear of being shot. As violent a place as the US is, Mexico, and particularly the border region including Tijuana, really is the wild west. The drug lords run the place, and pandemic lawlessness with murders, kidnappings and armed robbery becoming a daily occurance - and thats by the Police. My wife is from Mexico and we used to love to cross the border for dinner and enjoying the nightlife. Never again.
Banning guns isn't the answer. Eric lives in a significantly less violent place, but your argument about "living on the same continent, holds as much water as trying to compare Accrington with Ankara - on the same continent - and completely different.
That being said, I don't like the gun culture. Banning them simply leaves them in the hands of criminals. Hundreds of innocents will still die whether I can have my gun or not. I just want to make sure that when it comes around to my time (I have had a gun in the back of my head in 1995 in a robbery - that changed my opinion a lot) I have a fighting chance. I would love to change the culture, but that's not going to happen in my lifetime. And at the end of the day, I love San Diego, its now 80F and sunny. That makes life a lot easier to deal with. I haven't had to use a gun in 10 years, and I hope I never have to. And Im nuts enough to come to Accrington on Monday for 3 weeks for Christmas.