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[pictor]

As a followup from an extended conversation on another post of mine, I am curious where many of my friends stand on this.
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I have no intent that this become another place for debating this, I am just curious where people stand on this.

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[blinkus2000.livejournal.com]

As a large, straight, white man, who has been the victim of violent crimes, and worked a job that was under a constant threat to violent crimes (15 years driving cab in the States), witnessed violence done to women and men, I will say this.

If I was scared at times, I can glean enough to realized that I cannot begin to imagine what it would be like for someone half my size.

People who are in need of a defense should not have that right to defense taken away.

At the same time, I need to stress that guns are only a short term solution and a bandaid to bigger problems and long term they actually add to the problem. Law abiding licensed gun carriers are not committing crimes, but they are creating a market for guns, and with more guns in circulation, the more available they become to criminals.

Penalties for gun crimes are not severe enough. They honestly need to be severe enough to make gun crimes not worth it. I hear lots of arguments that this would never work, and we haven't even tried, only tried to add more legislation on law abiding owners.

[kira-lynn.livejournal.com]

am i supposed to answer this?

[blinkus2000.livejournal.com]

Only if you wanted to.

I was just agreeing with you and also making a point that it really should not be a long term solution.