canndo
Well-Known Member
I've been thinking a lot about guns, gun violence, mass shootings on the one hand, U.S. civil rights and the 2nd amendment on another hand and on a third hand, the explosive, reactionary, irrational responses to any percieved threat to most gun owners ability to do as they please with firearms, buy as they wish, and be held completely unaccountable for their ideological contribution to gun violence.
But the question finally draws down to a very simple one: how many innocent deaths is each one of your guns worth?
I know I am making some critical presumptions, that the removal of law abiding citizen's guns does not directly correlate with a reduction in gun violence and that there is the counterbalancing factor of self protection and perhaps an offset for potential governmental tyranny.
But that aside, presuming that a number could be established,
If you knew for certain that surrendering your firearm would keep a given number of children from being shot, what would that number be?
How many children is your right to keep and bear worth to you?
But the question finally draws down to a very simple one: how many innocent deaths is each one of your guns worth?
I know I am making some critical presumptions, that the removal of law abiding citizen's guns does not directly correlate with a reduction in gun violence and that there is the counterbalancing factor of self protection and perhaps an offset for potential governmental tyranny.
But that aside, presuming that a number could be established,
If you knew for certain that surrendering your firearm would keep a given number of children from being shot, what would that number be?
How many children is your right to keep and bear worth to you?