In Rwanda when there were no guns they used machetes. What do you do against a bunch of guys with machetes if you don't have a gun? You get chopped up. If all guns could be made to magically disappear overnight, it wouldn't make a better world, it would make a much worse one. All the predators would still be around and the rest of us would just be defenseless as they attacked in groups of two, three, five....with baseball bats, tire irons, or other home made weapons. Everyone would be vulnerable to whatever bigger brute confronted them. That's where the old phase came from that: "God made men, Sam Colt made them equal."Lonest4r wrote:I wonder why so many people are under the false impression that guns are evil? This is just one example of hundreds where a firearm has saved lives. Sure, in a perfect world we would need no weapons, but since there are already devices to kill and destroy out there it is just logical that we prepare ourselves to defend against such devices. Who knows how this story would have turned out had he not been prepared.
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I say that not only are guns absolutely not evil, they are an absolute good. They changed the world from a place where predatory brute force reigned supreme, to one where individuals have a chance of defending themselves. Guns are why we have the civilization we do, and humans being what they are, getting rid of guns will ultimately end it (unless some better weapons replace them). When liberals fight to get rid of guns what they're really fighting for is a return to barbarism and the rule of the bully. And note, on a smaller scale, that is exactly what they have achieved wherever they are in charge of a public high school --rule of the bully.