Reply #39: but I didn't say I was [View All]

You are entitled to protect yourself. You're NOT entitled to deny ME my choice of how to protect myself.

I said, with emphasis to assist you:

Surely WE are all entitled to protect ourselves by whatever means WE choose. I choose that one.

I, as a member of a collective, choose that one.

A collective choice to deny you permission to wander around in public with a firearm.

Nobody wandering around in public with a firearm is actually protecting themself. They're just wandering around in public with a firearm.

And I'm not sure how you think taking away guns from responsible, law-abiding citizens like me is going to result in your protection. Criminals will still have guns...and knives...and bricks...and clubs, etc.

They will have guns because guns drop magically from the sky like lawn darts. Those guns, the guns that criminals have, are a separate class of things altogether from real guns, which of course all start life being possessed by some law-abiding something or someone. Two separate classes, no overlap: your (collectively) guns, and criminals' guns.

Knives, bricks, clubs -- yup, and no gun will magically protect you against any of them.