Reply #117: Then we profoundly disagree.

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I know several people who have used the presentation of a gun to stop an attack, and I have done it myself - once. But once is enough to justify the purchase and maintenance of one for my lifetime for me.

The problem is in getting accurate statistics as it isn't something that people who have done it talk about a lot.

Since you see it as extremely rare, then you see the damage done by criminals with guns as the most severe. You do not see the lives saved by armed citizens as being of a significant number and are willing to sacrifice those lives for what you think as the greater good.

I see the lives and damaged saved by the armed citizen as being of a far higher number, enough to outweigh the damage done by criminals with guns.

Further, you speak of guns doing the damage, as if the gun were alive, instead of bad people using guns to do damage. That is also a profound difference.