• BombOmOm@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        9 months ago

        They are also damn helpful for defending life. A Smith and Wesson puts the daintiest of women on an equal field with the burliest of asailants.

        • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          9 months ago

          God brought us different, but Colt made us equal, blah-blah-blah.

          The difference between trained criminal who started and dictate the situation and an unprepared civilian is just too big. Not to say about how seeing a gun or a sudden movement would trigger an instant attack. You overestimate reflexes of a regular person and their ability to use firearms. Self-defence gun in a bag is more of a risk for an owner and others rather than an affective detterent.

          Guns should be. Under the lock. People who casually carry them around just in case aren’t a solution but a problem themselves.