*VR6*
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Don't try to take the high road by claiming I avoided your question. You are the first to deviate by avoiding my thought exercise by asking the ridiculously impertenent question. Who cares how many members did or didn't, the point of my theoretical example was to differentiate that given the choice of facing a barrel of a gun or a person with strong words which would you take. Anybody who's not lying would take the latter.
Because you fail to understand this your whole second paragraph is useless. Again, think preventative not reactionary. It's not about using the gun when the robber comes in, it's about stopping them from even thinking about breaking in the first place because they fear the possibility that they'll get shot.
Let me give a more extreme/ridiculous theoretical example to prove this. I do this to eliminate variables so that hopefully even simple minded people can participate. If for example police could blow you up with a predator drone if you ran from them, how many high speed car chases would we see? There's laws on the books now that make it illegal to do so but people still do. Just the very thought that you have no chance will stop all but the most desperate of people.
Inb4 you go potato on me and ask how many MR members have been predator droned.
I totally get the fact that a robber will be more scared to rob someone who has gun. Ok, we get it.
Now If we take your absurd example of predator drones, let's say we do as you suggest, and we give the police predator drones to destroy cars on high speed chase. What you are doing is you are suggesting a solution (predator drone) for a really ISOLATED problem (high speed car chases). Yes, you are right, there will probably be LESS high speed car chases (even simple minded people like me can understand this). Now what if I tell you that the after 5 years of using these predator drones, the number of civilians killed because of impacts are actually HIGHER than the car chases avoided?
You see the simple math there or is that too simple for your elevated soul?
Your only argument is basically this, hey let's just give weapons to the whole population to cover that 1/300 chance of having a robber at your place! Then we come up and explain you how this causes other issues like having fuckin 360+ school shootings every year (we won't talk about incidents out of school) and you just completely ignore these and go back straight to you point that makes no common sens what so ever lol
At one point even if we could prove you that one has more chance to get shot in a school than get robbed, you would still prefer having to guns to protect your ass because simple math is complicated.
Meanwhile, stay tucked in your home with your AR15 watching the window every night instead of sleeping, on my part I will sleep just fine as usual and if ever a robber comes in i'll let him take what he wants, I have good insurance.
I invite you to take a look at this video, you could learn one thing or two lol
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