Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Want a gun? Take a bullet: [View all]MillennialDem
(2,367 posts)unthinkable 20 years ago and it's unthinkable to get rid of it now. Plus, the younger people are less likely to agree that there is some inherent, natural right to own a gun.
We'll get it done. It will take a long time, but if we have the will, it will happen.
As for self defense, guns make a person like me, like I said, LESS SAFE. I'm fit, big, and strong. I'm non-violent, but it gives people more of an excuse to shoot me rather than someone else who does not match that description. Thankfully, I'm a woman because if I was a man I'd be even less safe in this regard.
And I'm deciding what's best for other millions of law-abiding citizens based on simple statistics. No matter who you are, you are less safe with a gun. That's just mathematical reality. You can bring up examples where this isn't true (such as grandma facing two attackers) but for every grandma facing two attackers, there is a young father who committed suicide, a kid who shot his younger sibling, a woman killed by her ex boyfriend, and a neighbor shot by accident.