Guns protect average people.

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I think there are some people who don't really understand how criminals work. If that is because they have never been a victim of crime, good I hope they never are.
Some folks think that if the guns went away the violent crime would go away. It simply doesn't work that way. We are a free society. So the criminals are free too. Free to be anilmalistic toward good people.
Criminals hurt and kill normal people for financial gain, and for fun. Here is a video of about 6 young men attacking 1 person. It is an average street with other people walking around who do nothing. The guy tries to run away. They chase him and catch him. They beat him until he can't stand then they stomp on him and rob him. It is obvious lots of the beating is for fun. He probably had broken bones from this, maybe life long injuries. The criminals simply out numbered him, no weapons. Maybe he will be permanently disabled from this.
My point this video shows it that criminals do not want a fair fight. They do not want to get themselves hurt. That is why it is normal for them out number their victim. It keeps them safer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH4hH6_WbVc&feature=related
If the victim had a gun he could have got away. Maybe things would have gone worse. But really what usually happens is when the gun comes out the criminals realize they are in danger and they run away. This is recreational violence, they don't want to get hurt themselves.

In this next video the 22 year old mugger mugs an old man in a parking lot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjBkGxeuNF8&feature=related
The old man walks with a cane. He approaches the old man, gets close, and pins him in place while he hits the old man full force 16 times with both hands.
Next is a very old woman with a walker in a stairwell. He punches her in the face until she hits the floor.
In the next attack he walks into a store and smashes a full bottle of liquor over the clerks head. No guns or knives in any of these attacks. Just huge disparity of force and no danger of being hurt to the criminal who enjoys beating senior citizens.
The only way these people could have protected themselves is with a gun.

In this video the mugger swings a baseball bat full force over and over beating a man who is already on the ground and not resisting. Critically injured.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxvYMJnHwDY

The violent people are not going away. Taking the guns away from them will not make them less violent. Disarming normal people just makes them unable to defend themselves.

Criminals do not fight fair.
A gun gives an average citizen a chance to survive.