A number of years ago after a home invasion by trashmen which severely injured an elderly couple in my dad’s comfortable neighborhood, my father and two other older men went door to door to offer home defense classes to the neighbors. Many men and women took it up.
My father and his friends helped the neighbors purchase guns, taught them how to use them at the range, placed emergency signals in place at all the houses and I remember my father saying proudly: No one is unprotected in this neighborhood for blocks around.
Sanitation workers broke into someone’s home?
My father and his friends helped the neighbors purchase guns, taught them how to use them at the range, placed emergency signals in place at all the houses and I remember my father saying proudly: No one is unprotected in this neighborhood for blocks around.
Figuring that there are something like (upward of?) 30 million gun owners in America - and that there are something on the order of 15 thousand gun murders annually, I figure that there are about 20,000 gun owners here for each annual gun murder. Which says that people aren’t buying guns to commit violence - they buy guns to prevent violence.IOW, complaining about the number of guns in America is as if a doctor would announce that because all his patients with infections had high white blood cell counts, he was developing a treatment to eliminate white blood cells from his patients’ bodies. There’s probably a way to do it - but it isn’t likely to make his patients any healthier.
Or it is as if I were to challenge you over your owning a fire insurance policy on your house, and also owning matches. Doesn’t that prove that you intend to commit insurance fraud? No, it means that you are prudent to insure your house - and you have other reasons to have matches than to commit arson. Whether those reasons justify whatever danger to your house that the matches represent is a prudential issue, not a moral one.