Stop and Think Tumblr! Gun Control
Imagine, guns are illegal, someone breaks into your house with a gun, they’re a criminal so they don’t care that they’re not allowed to have a gun. They shoot you and your entire family because as a law abiding citizen you don’t have a gun to defend yourself. Sounds like a good idea, huh?
I grab my 500 dollar short sword and kill the fucker with that. Guns are shit in CQC.
Also! If you own a gun, you are more likely to be shot with it!
ALSO! Unless you keep your gun loaded and ON YOUR PERSON AT ALL TIMES, and not with your gun safely unloaded and locked up in your gun safe, you’re still likely to get shot by your hypothetical home invader.
Oddly, I am American and do not own a gun. I also recognize that I neither NEED a gun, nor do I know how to use one safely, so I sure as shit should not HAVE a gun.
If guns are illegal, there are fewer of them to be bought, and ammunition is far more difficult to obtain, and most criminals who are going to randomly break into a house aren’t going to have the resources to acquire both.
And you’re assuming that the people inside this theoretical house don’t know how to use at least something in their house as a weapon that isn’t a gun. Which is not a terribly good attitude to have. Everything can be a weapon, if you have the right mind set.
So you know, yeah, making guns illegal sounds like an excellent idea.
Like, shit, dude, I know a half-dozen ways to kill someone on purpose with the little kitchen knife in my drawer, and a solid baker’s dozen ways that I could manage it accidentally, and as a result I’m careful as shit. And that’s something with real actual applications beyond killing things, that’s a cooking implement and I’m careful as shit.
The thing I’ve always kept in mind is this: a gun has no other uses. A gun exists to kill things, that is why you’re taught to never, ever point a gun at something you don’t intend to shoot, whether it’s loaded or not (and yes, I do know how to use a gun, I have training). A gun exists solely to kill. Even if you’re using a gun to protect yourself, you’re protecting yourself with lethal force.
So…uh, yeah, I wouldn’t be too upset about at least something to limit the availability of a gun.
(via windbladess)
