Interesting quote on guns and violence

[mvccd1000]

This came from a novel, but it seems to nicely sum up the views of most gun owners I know...

Okay, so Jill didn't approve of guns. It was hard to blame her. But to me, disapproving of guns was simplistic and naive. Like disapproving of violence, without making any distinction between an aggressor and a victim acting in self-defense. What I disapproved of was the initiation of violence.

(From Sean Chercover's debut novel "Big City, Bad Blood.")

[Bold Lib]

1. k and r. To bad the unrecs are already racking up.

May have to check that new author out. Thanks.

[Zoeisright]

2. Tell the thousands of dead Americans killed by guns that disliking guns

is "simplistic and naive". There's a book I'll never read. What a dumb statement.

[GreenStormCloud]

3. It is simplistifc and naive, and in the worst way. N/T

[PavePusher]

12. Truth usually is.... n/t

[spin]

5. Tell the thousands of people who used a firearm in legitimate self defense ...

that disliking guns is "simplistic and naive" and they will agree with that statement.

Why is it that you always hear of people murdered by firearms and rarely when someone defends himself/herself with one.

The media hates to publish stories that are favorable to gun ownership but loves to publish those stories where a criminal murders someone.

Of course, many times a firearm in used for self defense and no shots are fired. That was the case when my daughter pointed a large revolver at a man forcing the sliding glass door of our home open. He ran.

[mvccd1000]

6. Attempting to prove the point singlehandedly? nt

[cleanhippie]

7. One thing is for sure, your response to this certainly is "simplistic and naive."

[Atypical Liberal]

13. What about the thousands of living Americans saved by them?

The fact of the matter is, without firearms, in any physical assault the weak will always be at the mercy of the strong. Victims will have only three choices: Flee (if they are strong enough to run), submit (if they are strong enough to survive), or engage in a physical contest of strength (if they are strong enough to fight).

That's it.

Without firearms, every physical assault puts the weak at the mercy of the strong. This is the antithesis of being progressive.

[damntexdem]

4. So maybe we should disapprove of the initiation of guns?

jus' askin'

[Straw Man]

8. Conflation of inanimate objects and malicious deeds. Fail.

But thanks for playing.

[AtheistCrusader]

9. You mean at the foundry? That'll save some poor schlub from getting stabbed to death, won't it?

[Callisto32]

10. Sounds like the foundational principle of libertarianism.

[DWC]

11. Excellent quote!

I am adding it to my list of favorites.

Semper Fi,