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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 862596" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>How many gun owners have <strong><em>you specifically spoken to </em></strong>that have that attitude?</p><p></p><p>Whatever number that might be, how can you then fairly and accurately ascribe such attitudes towards <strong><em>all</em></strong> gun owners?</p><p></p><p>The common denominator in all of the recent "crazed gunman massacres" is that the criminals who chose to <em>break</em> the law had a monopoly of force to employ against those who chose to <em>obey</em> it.</p><p></p><p>The feel-good "gun free zone" laws that purported to <em>protect</em> those innocent lives in fact had just the <em>opposite</em> affect...it guranteed that they would be unarmed and therefore helpless.</p><p></p><p>Rational gun owners do not "fantasize" about single handedly being able to stop such massacres as you stereotypically feel that they do. Rational gun owners merely recognize the reality that <em>no one </em>is safer when only the criminals have the weapons and the good guys have nothing but a "gun free zone" sign to point at prior to being shot and killed by a criminal who had no intention of obeying the rule to begin with.</p><p></p><p>The <em>only</em> person who was armed on that terrible day at Virginia Tech was the lunatic. Would it have made a difference if I or any other law-abiding gun owner had been there and in posession of a weapon? Perhaps...perhaps not. But how could the outcome have been any worse?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 862596, member: 14668"] How many gun owners have [B][I]you specifically spoken to [/I][/B]that have that attitude? Whatever number that might be, how can you then fairly and accurately ascribe such attitudes towards [B][I]all[/I][/B] gun owners? The common denominator in all of the recent "crazed gunman massacres" is that the criminals who chose to [I]break[/I] the law had a monopoly of force to employ against those who chose to [I]obey[/I] it. The feel-good "gun free zone" laws that purported to [I]protect[/I] those innocent lives in fact had just the [I]opposite[/I] affect...it guranteed that they would be unarmed and therefore helpless. Rational gun owners do not "fantasize" about single handedly being able to stop such massacres as you stereotypically feel that they do. Rational gun owners merely recognize the reality that [I]no one [/I]is safer when only the criminals have the weapons and the good guys have nothing but a "gun free zone" sign to point at prior to being shot and killed by a criminal who had no intention of obeying the rule to begin with. The [I]only[/I] person who was armed on that terrible day at Virginia Tech was the lunatic. Would it have made a difference if I or any other law-abiding gun owner had been there and in posession of a weapon? Perhaps...perhaps not. But how could the outcome have been any worse? [/QUOTE]
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