I'm taking a pacifist's stand. No one should be armed. I don't think it's just to take someones life because he wants your property. Grievous bodily harm is also not right. What people forget is that violence only begets violence. Allow me to propose something. Thugs don't want to kill you for it causes deeper investigation. The thug is willing to kill you to get to your property, and it's normally more than one. If you choose to shoot at one, or are found with a gun, you die. So it increases your risk of death while it reduces your risk of getting robbed. Criminals do not like any gunfire as it raises alarm, messes up the operation and thereby increasing risk while reducing return. Simply put, a gun is only useful against one thug and there rarely is only one thug. Any other case and you are increasing risk to self. Further from this, you have the problem of escalation. How many traffic police have been shot dead on site in a robbery? Few. Why? They don't pose a security threat. If all citizens get guns, then all the thugs will do is shoot on sight. You have to realise that some thugs rob armoured vehicles with armed police, what is a vigilante with a hand gun to them? Contrast Britain and Japan, which have stringent arms control to the US and Mexico which are more lax? Or Somalia? At the end of the day, our laws should aim to decrease use of force. Have you ever thought about the rationale of arming a Police Officer? This is only one side, but you are basically buying arms with citizens money <Tax money> to kill or maim one of those very citizens. You cannot claim that because he stole he does not pay taxes. He is stealing to use the money in the economy so he pays VAT off his stolen loot? Anyway, this is off-topic. I rest here. On 6/18/09, Rad! <conradakunga@gmail.com> wrote:
what is the root problem of crime? crime is crime!
On 6/18/09, Steve Muchai <smuchai@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Tech List Kenya <techlistkenya@gmail.com> wrote:
Me thinks we should all have access to guns(and bullet proof vests).
Bad idea. We'll only succeed in killing ourselves in droves.
Look for ways of sorting out out the root of the problem, not the symptoms.
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