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Originally Posted by escorpio
Obama's family needs protection but the rest of us shouldn't have the right to protect ourselves from "nutters"? Should a 110 pound women be at the mercy of any man that wishes to rape her? Why do you want to take away people's right to defend themselves?
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Because that right also goes to the nutters.
This is what you and Joshua fail to grasp, even though it's obvious. There are no real checks and balances, no filtering, monitoring, and very weak control on the effectiveness and killing power of firearms and ammunition any nutter can buy.
You won't be facing a nutter with a baseball bat. You'll be facing one with little to lose, in a rage and armed to the teeth. So it becomes an arms races with no promise of mutual destruction. Which is why it's best to shoot first and not think. Which today soldiers are vigorously trained to do. And you are not.
Your analogy of the 110-pound woman is null and void when the rapist bought a gun that morning. To add to his arsenal of guns. Even after being convicted of sex crimes.
And as others say the US is so saturated with guns, there's no need to buy one in a shop.