>Against what?
In the US, that would be against the individuals who collectively commit millions of violent crimes per year (surveys indicate this number easily exceeds 5 million per year).
In the US, that would be against the individuals who collectively commit millions of violent crimes per year (surveys indicate this number easily exceeds 5 million per year).
>And it doesn't seem logical to me that a criminal who wants to (i.e. rob you) is really going to actually shoot and kill you to do it.
What you're missing is that I don't want someone to rob me. I don't want my family to ever be at the mercy of a violent thug. They ultimately depend upon me for their safety, and I am going to do what I can to guarantee it.
Of course.
> I don't want my family to ever be at the mercy of a violent thug.
No one does.
> They ultimately depend upon me for their safety, and I am going to do what I can to guarantee it.
Buy a pepper spray? What do you need a weapon of killing for?
Are you denying that there are situations in which a gun will incapacitate a deadly threat but pepper spray will not?
I'm not sure what world you are living in. There are millions of people who are victims of violent crime each year in the US. It happens. A lot.
You mentioned London. St. Louis has about twice as many homicides per year as London. There are 300 thousand people in St. Louis. London has, what, 8 million? And half as many murders.
I’m sure you do feel safe there. I’m less confident when I’m back home.
The actual rates within the city are almost unbelievable: 1,913.2 violent crimes per 100k people.
Of course, this highlights the truth of a chorus oft-repeated there, which is that the region as a whole isn’t nearly as unsafe as the City numbers imply, a problem exacerbated (and concealed) by the City’s relatively small footprint within the area.
But that’s small consolation to those of us who make our homes and spend our time in that undeniably violent core.
Can you see how the guns aren't working?
I can see that they're not an automatic cure-all for violence. There are parts of the US with extremely high gun ownership rates, and virtually no crime. And there are parts of the US with high gun ownership rates and high levels of crime. The fact is that there are many people in this world with violent tendencies. There always have been. Their violent tendencies are not a consequence of guns being around.
However, guns are a very effective tool for defending one's self and one's family against such people.
Unless these guys are liars too? Who knows, maybe 'ebbv knows better than them? https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=6166