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Guns are more often used as deterrents than to kill. Unfortunately, the cases of deterrence aren't newsworthy.
by drak0n1c 9y ago
Guns are more often used as deterrents than to kill. Unfortunately, the cases of deterrence aren't newsworthy.
- InitialLastName 9y agoA guy goes to the doctor with a pencil in his ear. The doctor says, "Why do you have a pencil in your ear?". The guy responds, "To keep away the alligators. See? No alligators anywhere in sight."
- DoreenMichele 9y agoMy dad was a two time veteran with a purple heart and guns displayed on the wall above his bed, not locked up. Our shitty sliding glass door at the back of the house, a standard feature in the houses of the neighborhood, was never broken into. Anyone that I knew well enough to know if they had had a break in could not say the same. I'm reasonably sure that word got round the neighborhood that if you valued your hide, Mr. (MyMaidenName)'s house was not a good house to break into. But, of course, I can't prove that. Maybe it was wild coincidence and we would have been magically safe without guns on the wall, never mind that no one else seemed to be.
- InitialLastName 9y agoYou might be right. My point is that the deterrence excuse is difficult to prove to the point of absurdity.
- DoreenMichele 9y agoYour absurd example doesn't really engage the point in a meaningful, substantive manner. It merely mocks the idea that deterrence is real. It frames it as something crazy people imagine. It isn't remotely a good faith argument.