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Originally Posted by verme (prevaricator)

this one is almost as good:

exactly, who needs laws?

let's live in a fucking anarchy.

in b4 utr0ll
just sayin'...

ha ha, borracho.

look, i lived in washington dc. murder capital of the usa in the early 90s.

washington had a handgun ban. so criminals were free to do whatever the fuck they wanted because every home invasion or rape or assault on a taxpayer was virtually risk-free for the criminal. that's not the case anymore.

this is maybe paradoxical to you, but in the united states, the higher the gun restrictions the higher the crime rate. criminals are always armed, so when you ban guns the victim is the one who loses, that's what i meant. the criminal doesn't care about regulations, permits, fingerprinting, or anything, they go to a gun trafficker and they're ready to go to work.

i have a friend whose brother was a church organist. the brother had aids, but he kept working, and one day walking home from the metro at night he was jumped in the street by thugs, and kicked on the ground until he was almost dead. it was supposed to be a simple mugging but he got a beatdown. i'm not sure why. because he was gay? probably. he was hospitalized and was in bad shape for a long time and eventually died from the damage.

my friend then started carrying a handgun because he didn't want to suffer the same fate as his brother. he moved from maryland to dc but kept his maryland driver's license so he could continue owning a gun-- he was breaking the city law because he was afraid for his safety. now the city law has been deemed unconstitutional.

when i first saw the gun i was scared shitless, it was a fucking magnum, huge, but i understood my friend feared for his safety. he had army training and knew how to use it and nobody was going to stomp him to death or near death.

of course he didn't know he "needed to own" a gun until his brother was stomped in the street for being a "faggot", just like you don't know you'll need a fire extinguisher or car insurance until you're in an accident or in a fire.

i've seen a lot of people mugged in dc, mugged and beaten and purple with concussions. the reason civilian gun carry works it's because it works as a deterrence, the same way that mutual assured destruction prevented nuclear war. yes, it sounds absurd if you don't get the math, but it works. it's easy to rob and abuse helpless victims.

where are the cops when you need them, anyway? all they do is write fucking reports after you've been fucked up. they don't show up to save you when you're in trouble.

i'm not saying make guns a free-for-all, obviously, but we have enough regulations, they just need to be sufficiently enforced to keep them off the hands of criminals. law-abiding people don't need their guns taken away from them by a nanny state, and the regulations (background check and registration) are already in place. americans will never put up with a "need to own" requirement.

there is a loophole for background checks and that is that of gun shows where they don't do those. should that be fixed? sure.