You want a disarmed police force? I’m as disgusted as anyone over police abuse of power, no-knock SWAT raids and the like, but disarming is swinging the pendulum back to an equal but opposite level of crazy.
In both instances the attackers went for the gun and got killed as a result. You’re blaming the gun just as the left does. The blame resides with the attackers who attempted to wrest the gun. No attack, no wresting. No wresting, no shooting.
Behavior.
Thanks for agreeing.
The presence of a gun creates a situation in which it is MUCH more likely that someone will die.
That’s an unintended consequence of being armed. IOW, it’s part of the price we pay for going about armed with lethal weaponry.
That price may very well be worth paying, but to my mind true conservatism recognizes that such tradeoffs exist. It’s the left that refuses to recognize that essentially all of life is tradeoffs.
Carry a gun, be expert in its use, and the chance of you or someone you’re protecting being mugged or raped goes WAY down. Part of the price for that increase in safety is a considerable increase in the chance that someone is going to die if you are attacked.
Probably the attacker, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there wasn’t a somewhat increased chance of being shot even for the intended victim. Sometimes people lose control of the gun, and if there isn’t a gun on hand the chance of being shot is zero.