Terror attack in Charleston

[Pseudosin]

I always find it laughable when people try to justify owning guns to keep their family safe. Statistically a gun in your home is 95% more likely to harm you or your family than to be used in self defense against an attacker (source:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/9715182/).

Additionally, if you're using a firearm as self defense of your family, that means it's not locked up and your children have access to loaded firearms. If it is locked up, you're not going to realistically be able to gain access to it while someone is actively trying to cause harm to you or your family in your home.


But you should still absolutely be able to own guns, and if it makes you feel safer, that's fine. Statistics say otherwise. But the real reason you should be allowed to own guns is it's guaranteed by the 2nd amendment, and guaranteed for a reason.

Historically the precursor to genocide has always been disarming of a population. This doesn't mean if a population is disarmed, there will be genocide (there are plenty of countries today that have been disarmed and their government is not mass executing their populations). But in every instance of genocide in the past 150 years, some or all of the population being executed was disarmed first. That's enough reason, and the reason the 2nd amendment exists.

I gladly encourage and support everyone to own a weapon, because statistically you are putting yourself more at risk than if you didn't, but I think it's important and honestly a civic duty to own a weapon.