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In reply to the discussion: If i am a teacher with a CCW and "a good guy with a gun" small enough to conceal [View all]loose wheel
(112 posts)The fact is that there are bad people in the world. It's always been just that case. They've used every concievable weapon throughout history, whether it was a rock, or a stone axe, or a spear, or a gun. The argument that good people should disarm because bad people might use something to commit their crimes is not a strong argument.
With a gun in her hand and relatively little training a 110 lbs. woman is potentially more dangerous than her 230 lbs. would-be attacker. Even if she is only just as powerful, he may be effectively detered by the weapon, or effectively dealt with if he chooses to play with fire. I really don't even see how that can be argued.
If that woman in India had been armed she could have stopped her attackers before they ever started, rapists don't like it when their chosen targets can fight back.
Bad people will do bad things until they are forced to stop. Always.