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To: combjelly who wrote (337171)	5/10/2007 5:08:15 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574342

You are in an argument, someone pulls a gun. You go for yours. What happens? You have a better chance of living. Or, your girlfriend sees you talking with another women. Crazed with jealousy, she shoots you. How is the fact you had a gun tucked into your waistband going to do you any good? It might help. She may miss, or hit in such a way that doesn't put me out of the fight. If I'm unarmed she gets me with the 2nd or 3rd or 4th shot, maybe the 15th if that's what it takes. Also "someone you know" doesn't necessarily mean a girlfriend, wife, child etc. It can be a distant acquaintance, or a disgruntled former coworker or subordinate. It can be a stalker. you also raise the possibility of shoot outs. Which don't help anything. I'd rather be in a shootout then just be casually executed. --- Also your looking at the percentage of murders in different categories, when we do have wide spread gun ownership. If you remove private legal ownership of guns (and most people who aren't otherwise criminals don't keep guns illegally) then you get more home invasion robberies and similar crimes.