Reply #112: Two points.

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We are not arming citizens. Citizens are armed. The question is to what degree should that be restricted. And if the citizens were unarmed, there would be no need for cops to be. British cops don't carry guns, you know. I appreciate your trust in the police, but they are only humans like everyone else and often not even the best examples of humanity. I do not trust the government, even if it is my corrupt town govt., with a monopoly on deadly force.

Second, you are committing the logical fallacy of false dilemma and "slippery slope." No one is suggesting anything like nuclear weapons and you know it. If people have concealed pistols, it does not naturally follow that they should have nuclear weapons too.