"They", are too lily livered to do that .....
"They", will have someone else do it .....
IE; LEO, or Military .....
Because they are truly cowards and must make themselves feel better by belittling those who are not. They need to be told they are the ones too chicken to make a difference. Come and take them you lily livered wussies.
...It seems like they are trying the angle that if you take responsibility for your safety, you must be some sort of person that is unbalanced...
This. People have a predisposition to imagining that everyone thinks like they do. That they think I can't be trusted with weapons and might snap at any second and shoot up a school says WAY more about them than it does about me.
... I get that statically the likelihood of ever needing a gun are low ...
But, that still works out to 1.7 chances in 10,000 that any of those would occur (assuming I did the math correctly). Leave out sex assault, drug related buy/sell crimes, race and the odds are pretty small. .
A focus on statistics is the wrong focus. Stats tell you "0" about whether you should carry. ...
...Unless we can do a time travel thing and I can be assured, 100% accurately, that not only I, but every person I am every around will never have this situation present itself, I am abdicating my responsibility to be prepared.
No, it's 0.6%, or 2,045,899/318,600,000 (2014 U.S. pop), or 1 in 156.
Drug offenses are not included in the violent crime stats. Leaving out sex assaults (not rape), doesn't buy you much.
There were still almost 2M offenses (1.761M) just including robbery, aggravated assault, and murder.
And yes, one's changes are significantly reduced by not doing things like sell illegal drugs (and the potential for violence associated with that).
Normalcy bias, optimism bias, and ignorance are difficult to overcome.
Deaths from fire - 3,275
Fire deaths are only in the thousands, but smoke alarms and fire extinguishers are common as are regular evac drills at school, work, etc.
Serious violent crimes - 2,045,899 (rape/sex assault, robbery, aggravated assault, murder)
All those serious violent crimes are just the kind of situation where a victim might need a gun.
But, for some reason, with over 2 MILLION violent crimes occuring, people think their "chances" of needing a gun are low.
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