I Don't Think Guns Make Us Safer

I think it is a double edge sword. One on end, you would think having guns means security and therefor protection, which equals safety. On the other end, the gun you have to protect yourself with, will the others will have them as well so the likely hood of resolving matters peaceful has a good chance to escalate to violence.

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shadowplay · 22-25, M

The biggest risk of carrying a gun is can you use it to kill someone? i bet most can not ,not when your face to face with another living breathing person. most if not military or police trained will hesitate if not outright freeze. shooting a person is not like shooting a target.that hesitation will get you killed,many times with your own weapon ,which has been taken from you .if you did not have the gun ,you might have survived. are you ready to kill?

walabby · 61-69, M

Yeah. I wonder what the statistics say about the number of assaults/robberies that were prevented by UNTRAINED civilians that actually fired their weapon?