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This line is repeated everywhere now, and it is hard to swallow. A deterrent is only useful if you employ it from time to time to demonstrate its power. If you
by doron 15y ago
This line is repeated everywhere now, and it is hard to swallow. A deterrent is only useful if you employ it from time to time to demonstrate its power.
If you have offensive capacity you will be bound to use it.
Guns don't kill people, People kill people.
Sure, but guns make it much easier, and by design, have the capacity for landing in the wrong hands.
- artursapek 15y agoA deterrent is only useful if you employ it from time to time to demonstrate its power. Are you suggesting people who own guns should kill someone from time to time so nobody will fuck with them?
- doron 15y agoAre you suggesting that this is not how guns usually get used?
- randallsquared 15y agoI'll suggest that. Over 50 million households in the US own 200 million or more guns, collectively. If these guns were usually used this way, the US would be depopulated by gun violence in a decade or two.
- artursapek 15y agoThank you, I wasn't gonna bother