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RE: If Everybody had a gun virtually nobody would use them.
Gang members don't drive to gun shows and have shootouts at them. They usually do it in places where only gang members have guns, and in response to the never ending circle of revenge killings. If a gang member killed your family member you'd probably be shooting too.
But they still all have guns, right? @matrixdweller is saying no one would be violent if everyone would have guns, but gangs are incredibly violent knowing everyone they shoot at will be able to shoot back.
Guess what... Gang members already all have guns so giving a gun to everyone else should make it better not worse. If I put a gun in your hand right now would you instantly become a vicious hardened killer? Do you think gang members all started violent or maybe they lived violence and became violent.
That has nothing to do with it. Everyone having a gun is thought to prevent people from being violent. People who want to be violent, like ganf members, do not avoid violence because other people are armed.
Edit: Basically you're saying that putting a gun in a peaceful man's hand doesn't make him violent.
I'm saying that putting a gun in a peaceful man's hand does not make violent men peaceful.
Would you rather be a peaceful man with a gun when the violent armed men are being violent or a peaceful unarmed man when the violent armed men are being violent. @telos