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Originally Posted by Tenlaar
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This is where your argument falls apart. People can control their own diet. People can't control other people shooting them so much.
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That's certainly true, but wasn't why I ended my comment with that line. I was basically saying that I don't believe others have the right to take my legally owned guns, that I've had NONVIOLENTLY for my entire adult life, because they're afraid. We have to find a balance between freedom and security, and I will always come down on the side of the former. I really don't think we can ban everything that is dangerous. I do agree that banning guns would save lives, however. I just think that becomes irrelevant when you consider that banning cars, sugar, meat, etc, would make our lives safer as well. It's like when the NSA tells me that I should give up my 4th Amendment right so that they can protect me. No thanks.
Some guy in Austria just ran a bunch of people over in a car. The sad truth is, despite our best efforts, we'll never be safe from one another. I'd like to own a gun so that, if a sociopath like the idiot over in Vienna and the one in Charleston ever attack me, I can put them down. I hope that that never happens, but I'd like to have the ability to defend myself.