Knowledge is power, a gun is for those without knowledge.
Up to you to decide the better path, not me. Personally I'd get the gun and shoot something... what a feeling eh? Maybe, if you're lucky, a foreign soldier might cross your sights... bonus eh?
Okay it's got quotation marks. The guys got a fancy name. Provide me evidence to back up his claims. You would need to prove to me that in America, fewer assaults/robberies occur because the victims have guns.
All I could find is...
A 1982 survey of male felons in 11 state prisons dispersed across the U.S. found:
34% had been "scared off, shot at, wounded, or captured by an armed victim"
40% had decided not to commit a crime because they "knew or believed that the victim was carrying a gun"
69% personally knew other criminals who had been "scared off, shot at, wounded, or captured by an armed victim"
A 1993 nationwide survey of 4,977 households found that over the previous five years, at least 3.5% of households had members who had used a gun "for self-protection or for the protection of property at home, work, or elsewhere." Applied to the U.S. population, this amounts to 1,029,615 (I'm not sure if that figure is applied to the 1993 U.S. population or today's population) such incidents per year.
This link has all the sources on it as well as even more statistics
So carrying a gun in Wal-Mart is your constant warning to your government that you can't be bullied? That quote would be much better used to explain why we have a right to protest. Not a right to carry weapons.
No, I don't think that flaunting a gun in public says anything. They aren't my words. I wasn't using it to say guns are a way of warning the government. I merely used the quote as something to think about. Also, I like the idea of protesting but it doesn't always work out. Look at Syria and Libya. When they protested their government just slaughtered them.
You having a gun would not stop your government from oppressing you if it wanted to.
That's pretty naive to say an armed population can't stop their government from oppressing them. How many armed revolutions have successfully overthrown their government? It's a lot easier to stop them than if we weren't armed.
