No, you're not being mean. As I'm not an english speaker, I often type thinking in my own idiom.Tempest wrote: I'm not trying to be mean or anything, but I can't tell for the life of me what the fuck you just said. If you could, please rephrase it.
What I tried to say was: only because the human being is "evil" in it's basic nature, does it mean we should accept monstrous deeds like what the shooter did or, going back into the history, what all those Nazi adepts did in the past just because it's part of our nature?
But there are laws that forbid people from drive like a crazy maniac. Once someone start doing it, it won't take long until it has few police cars on his track.Tempest wrote: You also stand the risk of being hit by some maniac in a speeding car everytime you go out for a ride. Does that still stop you from driving? Besides, MANY states do not have concieled weapons laws, so you cannot legally take a gun out with you in public anyway.
As for the last part of this paragraphy... how does it add for your speech? If it's not concieled, than people simply won't carry a gun everywhere. Plus, why would any govern allow civils to freely carry weapons?
What would you do if you run into a crooked cop? Aim a gun at him? Shot him? Either way, you'll have the wole police department trying to raw the skin from your ass. They're very sensitive about having one of them being manaced by anyone. In most of the cases, they doesn't know if their partner are or are not corrupt.Tempest wrote: What do you do if you run into a crooked cop? Or if you don't feel that your local police can adequately protect you? (In Britain for example, the regular street walking police can't carry guns). I'm not saying citizens should all go out and arm themselves to the teeth, but they should have the right to protect themselves as long as they are properly trained.
I read somewhere that the Britain police has their own tactitcs and equipments to attempt to stop fellons, before have to appeal to guns and suchs. I think we need to consider it.
Have you ever checked how many kids accidentally kills a friend or, in the worse case, kill a relative because there was a gun in their house? It's fact that having weapons in house brings more risk them defense. If we'll train people to use guns, then why waste money with police? You'll say that in Swiss every citzen are a potential soldeir, but you'll have to consider their instruction and cultural level. Compared to them, we from the Americas are barbarians. (unfortunately....)
In the same way a honest and decent person could go buy and get trainned in the use of arms, a psychopath could do the same. The most fearsome and dangerous psychos from the history were normal people like you and me (!!), above any supect that, one day, decided that he could go and do what he wanted for so long: kill.