Actually, considering who gets mugged or robbed there is reason to believe criminals do indeed avoid situations where they think there will be an armed response.
Do you think if the bad guy is pretty sure the victim will be unarmed he leaves his gun at home ?
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>we certainly have more gun crime than before Dunblane but the implication that banning handguns contributed is nonsense.
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>Some people seem to think that having guns deters gun crime. Is the US an example of that deterrence ? Would a criminal think "hey I won't steal from that house or mug that person because they might have a gun" I would have thought they are more likely to think "hey they might have a gun I'll take mine just in case and if they have I'll shoot them."
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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
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