AW: [aiethics] rumors

[Christian Dro?mann]

rdreyer wrote:

> True. But remember that 99.9999% of people who buy "legal" guns don't
> kill people either by choice or mistake. The people you bring up more
> likely bought their gun through the black market, something that gun
> control really has no impact on. If the gun had never been invented

I agree with you here...gun control cannot control the black market...

> or mass produced then I can see the point in saying that such weapons
> have no place in hands of law citizens. It's a sad fact that guns do
> exist and are purchased illegally for the specific intent of use in
> criminal activity, and the same sad fact makes it important for
> people to have the right to defend themselves against the possible
> threat of a home invasion or robbery with the same level of force as
> the assailant is using. Imagine your family's safety is threatened by
> a home invader who's glock model 31 was purchased illegally from an

This is IMHO not a problem of gun control, this is because the police =
and
other authorities do not have enough men and means to make smuggling and
obtaining illegal guns much more difficult than it is nowadays...

> importer. Now imagine that we live in a world where owning legal
> firearms has been banned. This means that an alternate to your
> scenario of being chased by a baseball bat exists in having you be
> forced to protect your life with that same bat against a criminal
> with a gun. I'd like to have no place in a world where I'm not
> allowed the option of defending myself.

I am German...I can imagine this very well...
And all I can say about this is that in a country where =
obtaining/carrying
firearms is illegal unless you have a very good (officially approved, =
that
is) reason, it is much less likely to be assaulted by a person carrying =
a
pistol/rifle/shoutgun or whatever...
Statistics show that most assaults or robberies are committed with "more
harmless" weapons, such as knives or (yes!) baseball bats...crimes =
involving
actual firearms are the minority as in most cases the pistol turned out =
to
be a toy gun or a gun only capable of firing blanks or CS-ammo (these =
things
are legal in Germany)...
I think the simple fact that someone you are going to attack is very
unlikely to carry a gun makes it unnecessary for you to get one =
himself...
Statistics also show that people carrying illegal guns only use them =
when
absolutely neccessary (in their opinion), as carying a gun with you, no
matter whether you actually use it, and getting caught with it is a =
reason
to put you in jail for quite some time...

> P.S.
> I don't own a gun, but am I skilled in Chun Kuk Do, Tai Chi Chuan,
> and Kendo. All are can be used to kill someone, either by fist or
> sword, but I'll be damned if I would want to use them against an
> armed and aimed attacker.

The best fight is the one you could avoid...as long as my family and I =
do
not get hurt, I don't care about all material things a gangster might =
take,
as -unlike yourself or family members- all material things are
replaceable...

Christian




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