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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (337175)	5/10/2007 8:13:21 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574485

"You have a better chance of living." Dubious, at best. Someone with a pistol in their hand feels in control of the situation. It doesn't necessarily escalate. However, if the other goes for their gun, it is a guarantee escalation. Like in a mugging. If the mugger has a knife, you are a lot more likely to get killed or injured than if they have a gun. "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." And here I thought that the Doonesbury cartoon where Uncle Duke testifies that he thought it would be better to be in a position to return fire as satire. You are proof that people actually think that way... "It can be a distant acquaintance, or a disgruntled former coworker or subordinate. It can be a stalker" Sure, it could be. And those are rare enough that they make national news. "I'd rather be in a shootout then just be casually executed." And those are rare enough, that they make national news. "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." No proof of that. Take a city like Houston. Private gun ownership is very widespread in Texas, and Houston is no exception. Yet, depending on the state of the local economy, Houston sometimes will lead the nation in such crime categories as murder and even home invasion. By you theory, that shouldn't be the case.