>>1. The point is that if you take away guns, knifings will become more dominate. The criminals won't stop killing people - they'll just find different ways of doing it.
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>Killing someone with a knife is harder than with a gun since you have to get close to the victim and he/she might beat you. But we're not only talking about hard core criminals here. We're also talking about someone who can act under high emotions and commit a crime that he wouldn't do normally and that he wouldn't have done if he didn't have quick access to a gun.


A person bent on killing you will use whatever item they find handy, gun, knife or otherwise.


>>2. why make their jobs easier by taking away my ability to defend myself?
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>Why do you need to defend yourself? Unless you work for an organized crime group, you shouldn't need to fear for your life. I don't know much criminals that want to kill just for the fun of killing. Normally it's for money or a rape. If it's a robbery, you cooperate and you report the crime to the police. End of the story. No need to put your life into jeopardy just for material things. AFAIK, you're a guy, so the probability that you get rapped is pretty much nil.
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>IMO having a gun on me just increase the risk that I get killed. A robber knowing that I own a gun would shoot first instead of just threatening to kill me if I don't give him my money.

Are you kidding?? Why do I need to defend yourself? That's a silly question.