[BearHustler]

Dropped in on politics because of recent events, and have a few quick thoughts:

- the main argument of the pro-gun posters seems to be that if more citizens were armed, they could stop more crime from happening. The main problem with this is of course that you are essentially giving your citizens permission to shoot and kill each other, based on personal judgement. I don't know if that's a situation you want to be in.

- a lot of people are saying something to the effect of: if we outlaw guns, only the outlaws will have guns. What they fail to see is that the "law obiding citizens" speak of turn into the evil villains themselves sometimes. Girl cheats on guy, guy shoots girl + lover. College student returns home unexpected, dad shoots him because he thinks it's a burglar. Guy goes from party-animal to drug user to broke junkie and starts holding up drugstores...

It almost seems that this is a common mistake you Americans make: to divide the world into "evil states" that are part of an "axis of evil", where "terrorists" live, while "criminals" are making your streets unsafe. It's all just people. People make mistakes. There is no "good" and "evil", only a society with a culture that creates both, and where all people have the capacity for both.

When people have guns at hand when they make these mistakes, the consequences get worse.

Arming people to stop gun crime is like starting a war to create peace. It will never work.