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Fuck owning guns and fuck owning guns for personal protection.
Handguns are the dumbest fucking thing in the world for society to allow. Lets make killing someone as easy as pressing a button at a distance! That's gotta a be a good necessary thing for anyone to do on a whim.
People over estimate how cool and collected they are.
The other day some asshole was letting his dog shit on the sidewalk and not picking it up. I saw. He saw me see. We made eye contact. He called me a coward and walked away.
In that moment I was emotionally ready to murder him. Just put his smug ass on the ground with his dog shit. Luckily, I don't carry a gun so I just yelled at him. But if I had a gun on me? No way the scene would have gone better.
There's a pretty big gulf between yelling at someone and shooting them... Had you considered non life-threatening physical force? Or do you always go right to murder
The point of the anecdote was that when people get really mad, they don't think rationally. If I had a gun, it would have been really easy in that moment to pull it out and use it. That's too easy.
(Though yes, I did briefly consider picking up his dog's shit with a plastic bag of my own, and hitting him in the face with it, but by then I had cooled down enough to realize I didn't want to potentially ruin my life by assaulting a guy on the street.)
Counterpoint:
Maybe it would have.