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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
There was a group that offered cash rewards to people who used a gun to prevent or disrupt a crime. The number is very low, especially so considering the number of deaths/injuries from accidental shootings. Speaking from personal experience, having a gun with me would not have helped me because the criminal had the element of surprise -- the gun was pointed at me before I even knew what was going on.
I'm not anti-gun, but more guns do not make society a safer, more law-abiding place. An extradordinary percentage of drivers in Houston are armed (see RT's post, supra), but haven't noticed that it makes Houston drivers more polite.
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Just hold the phone a second here, shifty-boy...
Do you mean to tell me that the NRA's slogan, "An Armed Society is a Polite Society" is actually
not true?!?
That just does not compute.
