• BombOmOm@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    They are also damn helpful for defending life. A Smith and Wesson puts the daintiest of women on an equal field with the burliest of asailants.

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      9 months ago

      God brought us different, but Colt made us equal, blah-blah-blah.

      The difference between trained criminal who started and dictate the situation and an unprepared civilian is just too big. Not to say about how seeing a gun or a sudden movement would trigger an instant attack. You overestimate reflexes of a regular person and their ability to use firearms. Self-defence gun in a bag is more of a risk for an owner and others rather than an affective detterent.

      Guns should be. Under the lock. People who casually carry them around just in case aren’t a solution but a problem themselves.