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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: quehubo who wrote (36686)4/22/2007 7:46:42 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (2) of 541941
 
I'm torn over the arguments for homeowners to have the right to keep guns in their homes.

I think to actually have them is a terrible mistake. The probability of accidents harming members of the family are far greater than the probability that it could be useful if an armed intruder gets in the house. Or even that it would be useful in such an instance: remembering where you put it so the kids couldn't get to it; taking off the safety; remembering how to fire it; just a lot of imponderables.

I'd rather grab the family and dive out the window myself.

The public policy question is whether you should have the right to make that mistake. I am clear that you should not if someone could make a persuasive case that doing so could produce harm to others. I gather our general philosophy of personal responsibility in the US is that you get to make as broad a set of decisions about your family. Hence, you can keep firearms at home even though it might endanger your family. But if it constitutes a broader public threat, you lose.

I haven't seen the argument for that one. Which definitely isn't to say it's not out there.

God help me, in addition to splitting innumerable infinitives I'm now descending to double negatives. Help.
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