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I never understood this argument. A gun is not a shield, so how does it protect you from being shot?
by c22 9y ago
I never understood this argument. A gun is not a shield, so how does it protect you from being shot?
- dragonwriter 9y agoDeterrence is a form of protection, as is the capability to disable a potential attacker.
- c22 9y agoSure, but people making this argument tend to imply that a gun is the only effective way to deter or disable specifically an attacker with a gun. No one says police should carry guns to deter knife wielders and a Kevlar vest would seem to provide more protection against someone with a gun who's at the end of their rope/too strung out to care. This line of reasoning would make more sense if life was a TV show and every armed interaction was a Mexican standoff, but in reality most criminals with guns are already far from being rational actors.