[PLUG-TALK] More Guns

[Brian Beattie]

On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 19:19, AthlonRob wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 16:01 -0700, Jeme A Brelin wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, AthlonRob wrote:
> > > OJ wouldn't have known if she would have gotten it to protect herself
> > > from him - I don't think she'd have let him know.  :-)
> > 
> > Isn't that directly counter to the "deterrent effect" of packing a gun?
> > 
> > Again, you seem to be encouraging greater harm by supporting the idea (and
> > getting some glee from it, if I interpret the colon-dash-parens correctly)
> > that she should have waited to be attacked and then done some killing.
> 
> There are two ways to look at this... either let him know you have a
> gun, so he knows to bring a bigger gun... or don't let him know you have
> a gun and let it be a surprise (and a deterrent at the incident itself)
> for him.
> 
> Not letting him know seems to be working more in our favor here...
> walking around telling everybody you have a gun isn't going to lead to
> more peace most of the time.  Silently carrying one won't have an impact
> on the peace until peace is already broken.
> 
> Sounds like a win-win situation to me.

So now he knows she has a gun, so next time he brings a bigger gun, or
is a dead body win-win, no I don't think firearms get anybody any where
in this.
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