iirc, also statistically speaking, if you keep a gun(s) in your home, you have a much higher chance of being a victim of a gun crime than you are of using said gun to stop a crime.
Same here with knife crime in the UK; Somebody pulls a knife out perhaps only with the intention of intimidation but then the knife is kicked out of their hand and picked up by the person they wielded it against, who doesn't know what their intention was, fight or flight kicks in and the person who produced the knife gets stabbed.
A friends father said to us once, 'if you carry a knife, you'll end up using it.' Always stuck with me that one.
__________________ Then lets head down into that cellar and carve ourselves a witch
I know someone who carries a knife and although he hasn't used it to my knowledge, he is a felon who's been in prison for petty theft and fighting.
Truth is, he's obviously got enemies, takes drugs and isn't bright at all. I saw him walking down the main road swaying his arms around with a bottle of cheap cider in one hand.
I would be scared if someone like him had access to a loaded firearm.
"The white nationalist who targeted Hispanics when he killed nearly two dozen people at a Walmart store in a Texas border city in 2019 is likely to be sentenced on Friday, having already agreed to accept 90 consecutive life terms when he pleaded guilty.
The sentencing by U.S. District Judge David Guaderrama in El Paso follows two days of emotional testimony from witnesses, some of the 22 wounded survivors, and relatives of the 23 dead who delivered impact statements in the presence of the shooter, Patrick Crusius, 24." -snip
White Nationalist racist piece of shit got what he deserved.
I don't believe in capital punishment as I don't believe the state should have the power to kill people and innocent people have been put to death due to a flawed system, But if he gets the death penalty as well, not going to lose a wink of sleep..
No offense, but this logic means you are at the mercy of whomever chooses to threaten you with a weapon.
And it's inconsistent, it presumes you aren't to be trusted with a weapon, yet a mugger is? Why make that assumption? What happens if the knife man takes your wallet and stabs you anyways?
I will never understand a policy that effectively places all power in the hands of an anti-social aggressor, while burdening the masses to not resist so they don't get hurt and hope their aggressor isn't a complete lunatic. That is a society that has gjven up on ever controlling those who rob and steal and murder, and instead focuses on everyone else to avoid poking the Hornets nests, even though hornets sting people all the time whether poked or not.
__________________ What CDTM believes;
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
A U.S. Army reservist suspected of killing at least 18 people in Maine had been taken by police for an evaluation after military officials became concerned that he was acting erratically in mid-July, a U.S. official told The Associated Press.
The official said commanders in the Army Reserve’s 3rd Battalion, 304th Infantry Regiment became concerned in mid-July that Robert Card was acting erratically while the unit was training at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in New York.
The official said military commanders became concerned about Card’s safety and asked for the police to be called. New York state police took Card to the Keller Army Community Hospital at West Point for evaluation, the official said. -snip
Apparently this guy has a history of mental illness, making threats of violence and spent some time in a mental facility. Yet had guns legally. Go Go NRA! Go Go Republicans!
On his X account, Robert Card followed and/or liked posts by a number of prominent conservative politicians and pundits, including Donald Trump, Jr. and Tucker Carlson, as well as X CEO Elon Musk.
In March, he liked a tweet by Trump Jr. that read, "Given the incredible rise of trans/non-binary mass shooters in the last few years—by far the largest group committing as a percentage of population—maybe, rather than talking about guns, we should be talking about lunatics pushing their gender-affirming bullshit on our kids."
Mass shooters are trans, insurrectionists are AntiFa, up is down, and the world is flat.
Republicans are cheering that they finally managed to elect a Speaker of the House, and they're claiming "all signs point to a more 2nd Amendment friendly house" -snip
A mentally ill person with a history of making threats and spending time in mental facility can own guns and go on a murder spree. How much more "friendly" do they intend?
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