But there are guns. The “world with no guns” already doesn’t and won’t exist. So our options are to disarm ourselves while other people have guns, thus leaving ourselves vulnerable to any bad actor, or, have a gun and be easily able to defend ourselves.
And, for the record, that’s an extremely reductive take on what guns are used for anyway.
You are understandably uncomfortable with violence. That’s okay, but wishing it wasn’t there and saying it shouldn’t be so doesn’t ever address the problem. Likewise, asking that everybody else conform to the same mindset is just selfish and naive. You don’t seem to realize how many people you’re speaking for, and how wrongly you’re speaking for them.
Yeah, nah.
It would be a huge net positive to the world if there were no guns.
But there are guns. The “world with no guns” already doesn’t and won’t exist. So our options are to disarm ourselves while other people have guns, thus leaving ourselves vulnerable to any bad actor, or, have a gun and be easily able to defend ourselves.
And, for the record, that’s an extremely reductive take on what guns are used for anyway.
You are understandably uncomfortable with violence. That’s okay, but wishing it wasn’t there and saying it shouldn’t be so doesn’t ever address the problem. Likewise, asking that everybody else conform to the same mindset is just selfish and naive. You don’t seem to realize how many people you’re speaking for, and how wrongly you’re speaking for them.