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Originally Posted by Rochard
Honestly, I am much more concerned about people's driving habits than firearms. The odds of some jack ass hitting me "by accident" is 100%, while the odds of someone invading my house are like .000006%.
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Yep, getting killed in an automobile dwarfs everything else statistics-wise.
But being concerned about it is a waste of time. Just like it's a waste of time being concerned about gun control or where lightning might strike, etc.
We can try to make things better of course, but govt. always seems to overreach and use tragedies to their advantage to pursue agendas that we don't even know about.
My personal feeling is that people should worry more about their own behavior...and law enforcement should be used to arrest someone after they do a crime.
All this stuff of trying to predict crimes and stop them ahead of time reminds me of that movie "Minority Report".
Preemptive moves rarely work out the way people intend. (just look at the Iraq war for instance).
I say...IF somebody kills somebody, THEN arrest them and hold that person responsible for what he did. Right now it seems to me that there is a line of thinking that is heading towards trying to preemptively stop crimes before they happen.
I don't think that will work, and the end result will be even more govt. control over our lives. (which is why I say just repeal the 2nd amendment and be done with it IF that's what our society has decided needs to be done).