I understand your point, but what keeps the socially awkward people from obtaining a gun? If someone wants to go on a "rampage" nothing stops them, they make the choice and do it plain and simple. The only problem I see is that there are not enough people to stop that person. All they can do is run and scream. We hear all about the people committing the crime but not enough about the people that help stop crimes. Police respond people react.I honestly don't know...
I have two perspectives (that I feel like rip right down the middle).
Theory One:
A majority of desperate people that consider robbery/attempts, etc would
second guess their chances of surviving when someone else could easily kill them.
(On that theory, I think MANY people would cut back on that kind of violence).
Theory Two:
To those socially awkward people we come across day in and day out that make us say,
"Thank God they don't have a gun on them right now..." - ...Case in point.
Put a life-ending piece of metal around the finger tip of a borderline-psychotic individual that
got pissed off over something stupid... would result in a lot of people playing 'tough ass' and
would be chaos everywhere.
See what I mean?
I'm sure everyone has their theories... but the fact remains (in my noggin) that if this
were to ever happen, it would decrease the number of robberies/B&E's, etc...
But increase the number of 'Off-the-street' gun-shooting incidents.
I understand your point, but what keeps the socially awkward people from obtaining a gun? If someone wants to go on a "rampage" nothing stops them, they make the choice and do it plain and simple. The only problem I see is that there are not enough people to stop that person. All they can do is run and scream. We hear all about the people committing the crime but not enough about the people that help stop crimes. Police respond people react.
/threadTurn off the tv.
I always see these shootings on t.v. and wonder if more people carried guns could we stop a lot of crime. Who would just open fire on a hundred people carrying a gun, it would be over before it started. Input?
Turn off the tv.
wonder if more people carried guns could we stop a lot of crime.
I always see these shootings on t.v. and wonder if more people carried guns could we stop a lot of crime. Who would just open fire on a hundred people carrying a gun, it would be over before it started. Input?
As the old saying goes: "An armed society is a polite society".
On an empty street where a person (with all the proper training) could get mugged and still have a chance to defend, it would decrease crime.
On a crowded street, if many had enough time to react, there would be confusion and crossfire. Innocent people would get hit. I'm not sure that would be any better.
Really the Streets will run with blood argument...
Cesare Beccaria: 1738-1794 Noted Criminologist and author of "On Crimes and Punishments" said:False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity, the most important of the code, will respect the less important and arbitrary ones, which can be violated with ease and impunity, and which, if strictly obeyed, would put an end to personal liberty... and subject innocent persons to all the vexations that the guilty alone ought to suffer? Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. They ought to be designated as laws not preventive but fearful of crimes, produced by the tumultuous impression of a few isolated facts, and not by thoughtful consideration of the inconveniences and advantages of a universal decree.