Reply #57: And I prefer outcomes where crime victims don't have to deal with it on their own

[jgraz]

As I said before, no one celebrates stories about a crime victim calling police and getting the perps arrested. This is probably because those stories aren't nearly as viscerally satisfying as a story of a lone gunman blowing away the bad guys.

We all prefer outcomes where criminals don't succeed. The problem comes when there's a preference for individual armed resistance over community- or government-based solutions (e.g. hiring more police or cutting down response times). That is a fundamentally right-wing, anti-government philosophy, and it's primarily what drives a lot of the pro-gun movement.