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In reply to the discussion: 2nd Encounter of the Day.... Over guns this time [View all]BainsBane
(53,031 posts)I want nothing to do with anyone who carries a gun. But that doesn't mean I have the luxury of taking a limousine for transportation. I go where I must to get around. Do you imagine poor people live near drug dealers because that's their preference in life? I could take lunch and around of golf at the country club, but I think I'll go to the bus stop with the drug dealers instead. JHC.
I hate guns, and I would prefer I didn't hear them out my window. I prefer not to be around anyone who carries them, whenever possible. Unlike the supermarket "tough guy," these drug dealers did not brandish their weapons, and frankly it never occurred to me a the time they were armed. But in retrospect I imagine they probably were. But who knows. They might not have been. Thankfully, I now earn enough not to live in that neighborhood anymore, but not so much I still don't hear gun shots out my window on occasion.
The point was that a person can survive without a gun. I don't carry a gun, so I don't mess with people. Data shows that people who carry guns are far more likely to get into violent situations than those who don't. I mind my own business. I hear gun shots, I call the police, but I don't run to see who did the shooting. That's life in the inner city. And that's why those of us who live in cities want the ability to be able to heavily restrict or ban handguns. But we don't have that right because your desire to have weapons in your homes--in some privileged world nothing like our own--means our children must die. Through Heller, gun proponents have taken away our rights to self-determination, even though the DC ban had no impact on their lives.